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Name
  
Chris Greenhalgh


Role
  
Novelist

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Movies
  
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Books
  
Coco and Igor, Seducing Ingrid Bergman, Coco Chanel & Igor Strav, The Invention of Zero, Of love - death - and the sea‑s

Similar People
  
Jan Kounen, Boy Capel, Igor Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Chattoune

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Chris Greenhalgh is a British novelist, screenwriter, teacher and poet.

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Life

Chris Greenhalgh was born in 1963 and brought up in Manchester. After studying English Literature at university, he lived and worked for five years in Italy and Athens. Upon his return to England, he completed his doctoral thesis on the poetry of Frank O'Hara. He has since pursued a twin career as a writer and educator. He has published two novels, three books of poetry and a successful film script, and has taught in Athens and at Sevenoaks School, where he was Academic Deputy Head. More recently he was Principal of Southbank International School, London and is currently Principal of The British School of Milan (Sir James Henderson).

Novels

Coco and Igor was first published in the UK in 2002 by Headline Review and has since been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Russian, Polish, Greek, and Chinese. The novel is based on the secret affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920.

Greenhalgh’s second novel, Seducing Ingrid Bergman, is set in Paris and Hollywood, after the end of the Second World War and tells the story of Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa's intense and ultimately tragic relationship.

Film scripts

Greenhalgh has written a screenplay adapting his novel Coco and Igor. The film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, directed by Jan Kounen and starring Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen held the prestigious closing slot at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival selected Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky to be shown in its prestigious closing slot, on 24 May 2009.

His second novel was optioned in 2014 by YRF and is currently scheduled to be directed by James Mangold(Walk the Line, Wolverine, Girl Interrupted...)

Poetry

Greenhalgh has published three volumes of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books.

  • Stealing the Mona Lisa (1994)
  • Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt (2000)
  • The Invention of Zero (2007)
  • Prizes and awards

  • Eric Gregory Award for poetry from the Society of Authors (1992)
  • References

    Chris Greenhalgh Wikipedia