Akraid Peter Biography

Peter Akraid English. Peter Ackroyd; October 5, London is a British writer, poet and literary critic. Peter Akraid was born on October 5 in London. In the year he received a master's degree at the University of Cambridge, then spent two years at Yale University in the United States. Upon returning to his homeland, he worked as an editor at The Spectator, and in the year he began to cooperate with the London Times, where his book reviews were published.

Peter Akraid began his way in literature with poetry: in the year his debut poetic collection “London Lickpenny” was released, then “Rural Life”, “Perly's Entertainment” in the year releases his first novel. Akraid is an open homosexual. The first novel of the writer “Big London Fire” is published. Already in this work the main motives of the writer’s work are visible - interest in the past and his reflection in literature, a mixture of real details of the biography of famous characters in English history and culture with plot motives and characters of literary works and copyright fictions.

The text of the “Big London Fire” was built on allusions to the biography of Charles Dickens and his novel “Baby Dorrit”. The debut was followed by the novel Hokokmur, in which the author addresses the personalities of architects Nicholas Hokokmur, John Vanbru and Christopher Ren. In the light of the novel “Chatteron”, where Akraid is building a plot around the famous history of literary hoax - the young British poet Chatteron issued his works for verses by an unknown medieval author, and later he himself became a character in a literary myth.

The novel “Testament of Oscar Wilde” is the author’s version of the last years of the life of the famous writer, forced to retire into emigration. The plot of the novel is a bizarre interweaving of the life history of this scientist and modern events to the writer. In this novel, Akraid turns to the genre of science fiction, not limited to historical realities.

In the novel “Dan Leno and Golem from Laimhouse”, another name is “Elizabeth Krey”, Akraid turns to the genre of a historical detective - this is a description of the gloomy history of murders in Victorian London, in which such historical parsonies as Karl Marx, Charles Babbage and George Gissing are involved. A special originality of the entourage of this work gives a description of the life of Kokni and the actors of the London musical Halls.

In Akraid, the next fantastic novel “Milton in America” is an alternative story of the English poet and public figure of the 17th century John Milton - as if, persecuted during the restoration, he runs to North America. In the novel “Letters of Plato”, Akraid draws a fantastic world of a distant future, in which historians are trying to recreate the realities of our time on the basis of the remaining written sources.

Surrealistic results of their searches allow you to think about the adequacy of our historical knowledge and the ratio between writing, knowledge and reality. In the novel “London writers”, Akraid describes a fantastic story about large -scale falsification - suddenly the English literary society of the 18th century is shocked by the new and new finds of relics associated with the life and work of William Shakespeare.

The apotheosis of these events is the solemn production of the newly -nailed play by the great writer. In the novel, Charles and Mary Lam were bred as one of the main characters.

Metaroman “Viktor Frankenstein magazine” is a version of the famous novel by Mary Shelley, written on behalf of Viktor Frankenstein, where the writer, Percy Shelley, Byron and the monster created by the unfortunate scientist act as the actors. Akraid also publishes biographical works, in particular Blake and William Shakespeare and the fundamental historical topographic books “London” and “Thames”.