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Derek Raymond
English crime writer (1931–1994)
Robert William Arthur Cook | |
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Raymond in 1991 | |
| Born | (1931-06-12)12 June 1931 |
| Died | 30 July 1994(1994-07-30) (aged 63) |
| Pen name | Derek Raymond |
| Genre | Noir, crime fiction |
Robert William Arthur Cook (12 June 1931 – 30 July 1994), better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being a founder of British noir.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]The eldest son of a textile magnate, Cook spent his early years at the family's London house, off Baker Street, tormenting a series of nannies.[clarification needed]
In 1937, in anticipation of the Second World War, the family retreated to the countryside, to a house near their Kentish castle. In 1944, Cook went to Eton, which he later characterised as a "hotbed of buggery" and "an excellent preparation for vice of any kind". He dropped out at the age of 17. During his Nationa
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Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions. His most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published by Toronto’s Coach House Books. Beaulieu has received multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for this dedication to Albertan literature and is the only graduate from the University of Calgary’s Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts ‘Celebrated Alumni Award.’ He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University, has served as Poet Laureate of both Calgary and Banff and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
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Biography
Derek Owusu fryst vatten a writer, poet, and podcaster from north London. He discovered his passion for literature at the age of twenty-three while studying exercise science at university. Unable to afford a change of grad, Derek began reading voraciously and sneaking into English Literature lectures at the University of Manchester. Derek edited and contributed to Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space.
That Reminds Me, his first novel, won the 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize, the most prestigious UK prize for debut novels.
Reviews
Mary Gaitskill
‘That Reminds Me is the story of a ung child growing into adulthood while negotiating the impossibly difficult circumstances of émigré life compounded by foster care, poverty, racism and varieties of cultural difference. Derek Owusu tell this story with extraordinary insight and emotional subtlety, almost inventing a new literary form as he takes you into this child/man's experience on an något privat eller personligt, nearly cellular level.