Occupation Writer Period (1993–present) Role Novelist | Nationality British Name Nicholas Royle | |
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Genre Literary Fiction/Crime Fiction/Horror Books First Novel, Deconstructions, The Matter of the Heart, Book of Two Halves, The Director's Cut | ||
NCWGF 2016 - An Interview with Nicholas Royle from Nightjar Press
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Nicholas Royle (born in Manchester in 1963.) is an English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer.
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- NCWGF 2016 An Interview with Nicholas Royle from Nightjar Press
- nicholas royle interview1wmv
- Author
- Awards
- Editor
- Publisher
- Academic career
- Personal
- References
Author
Royle has written seven novels - Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director’s Cut, Antwerp, Regicide and First Novel. He also claims to have written more than 100 short stories, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines. His last book for Serpent's Tail, publisher of two previous novels, is a short story collection, Mortality.
Awards
Royle has won a British Fantasy Award three times: Best Anthology in 1992 and 1993 and Best Short Story in 1993. He has been nominated for Best Short Story three further times.
The Matter of the Heart won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 1997.
Editor
Aa an editor, Royle is best known for having edited The Lighthouse, by Alison Moore, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
He has also edited twelve anthologies including A Book of Two Halves, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams, The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories, and Dreams Never End (Tindal Street Press).
In 2015 Royle edited The Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson (Salt Publishing)
Publisher
Royle owns and manages Nightjar Press, which publishes short-stories as signed, limited edition, chapbooks. Nightjar Press has published authors including M. John Harrison, Christopher Kenworthy, Joel Lane, Alison Moore and Michael Marshall Smith
Academic career
Royle is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been Chair of Judges for the Manchester Fiction Prize since it was launched in 2009.
Personal
Royle is married with two children and lives in Manchester.
Royle shares his name with a Professor of English at the University of Sussex who is the author of textbooks, including The Uncanny, and a novel, Quilt. The two are often confused with each other.