Nationality British Awards Samuel Johnson Prize Role Author | Name Philip Hoare Occupation Writer | |
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Full Name Patrick K. Moore Website Philip Hoare's homepage Books Leviathan - or the Whale, Noel Coward: A Biography, England's Lost Eden, Wilde's Last Stand, Oscar Wilde's last stand | ||
Philip hoare the sea inside so to speak 2015
Philip Hoare (born Patrick Moore, 1958) is a British writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011.
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- Philip hoare the sea inside so to speak 2015
- Philip hoare talking about his work at britlitberlin 2015
- Name
- Life
- Works
- Other projects
- References
Philip hoare talking about his work at britlitberlin 2015
Name
He was born Patrick Moore. He chose the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore:
Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' Or: 'Do you play the xylophone?' Another reason was that when I was managing bands I used to review my own bands for the NME and Sounds as Philip Hoare. Philip was my confirmation name; Hoare my mother's maiden name.
Life
Hoare was born in Southampton and attended St Mary's College.
In 1982–83, he ran the record label Operation Twilight, a UK-based subsidiary of the Belgian Les Disques du Crépuscule, which launched the career of the Pale Fountains. In 2009 he exhibited artworks made with Angela Cockayne at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc in London
Works
Hoare is the author of ten works of non-fiction:
He has also edited The Sayings of Noël Coward (1997).
Hoare has co-authored or contributed to the following publications:
Other projects
He has been interested by cetaceans since early childhood. He wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC's Whale Night.
Between 2011–12, his self-professed 'whale obsession' led him to create the Moby Dick Big Read. The project, curated by Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne, involved the construction of an online audiobook of all 135 chapters of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick; or, the Whale. The readings were delivered by a multitude of celebrities, including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, Sir David Attenborough, John Waters, Simon Callow and David Cameron, and accompanied by images from contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, George Shaw and Susan Hiller. The readings were uploaded to the Moby Dick Big Read website, with one chapter available for download per day from 16 September 2012. All downloads are free but donations are invited to 'Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society' (WDCS).
Hoare is a contributor to the animal news site,The Dodo.