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Nevil Shute
English novelist (1899–1960)
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| Born | Nevil Shute Norway (1899-01-17)17 January 1899 Ealing, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 12 January 1960(1960-01-12) (aged 60) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
Early life
Shute was born in Somerset Road, Ealing (which was then in Middlesex), in the house described in his novel Trustee from the Toolroom. He was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford; he grad
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Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK aeronautical engineer and author Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), who served as a stretcher bearer in Dublin during the Easter rising in 1916, and was in active service at the end of World War One; for many years he combined writing with engineering work, specializing in Zeppelins – the failure of the R101 disillusioned and embittered him; after his demobilization from active service in World War Two, he moved for political and health reasons to Australia, where he set much of his later fiction; he now wrote full-time.
Some of his earlier fiction, by taking advantage of his intense and very up-to-date knowledge of aeronautics (and of boffins or back-room boys), verges very closely on sf, particularly in So Disdained (1928; vt The Mysterious Aviator1928), which features some intoxicated flying and Communist-inspired espionage. What Happened to the Corbetts (1939; vt Ordeal1939) is a genuine Future War tale, portraying the very Near Future bombing of Southampton in World War Two, the action of
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Nevil Shute
| Nevil Shute | |
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| Pseudonym | Nevil Shute |
| Født | 17. januar 1899 Ealing, Storbritannien |
| Død | 12. januar 1960 (60 år) Melbourne, Victoria, Australien |
| Dødsårsag | Slagtilfælde |
| Uddannelsessted | Shrewsbury School, Dragon School, Balliol College |
| Beskæftigelse | Racerkører, flyingeniør, science fiction-forfatter, pilot, manuskriptforfatter, forfatter, romanforfatter, ingeniør |
| Arbejdsgiver | Vickers |
| Kendte værker | På stranden, Ventetid (1957) |
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Nevil Shute Norway (17. januar1899, London – 12. januar1960, Melbourne) var en britisk forfatter.
Han skrev en del romaner om tiden under og efter 2. verdenskrig, f.eks. Pastorale, Manden med pilefløjterne, Ventetid. Nogle af hans efterkrigstidsbøger var præget af hans tro på et kommende stærkt Commonwealth.
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