I was thinking of entering a writing contest I briefly read about, and then I visited the judge’s website, and his bio is so bizarrely and poorly written that I decided, um, no. It reads as if perhaps someone else––someone who isn’t a native English speaker––wrote it, and then Clare just never edited it? Or a bot wrote it? In any case, it’s not a crime against humanity or anything, just very bizarre to see an “award-winning author” allow such a shoddily written summation of his credentials to be out there. I was going to redact the name but that was just too much damn trouble. Disclaimer: he does seem to be a good writer and also accomplished. It’s not him I object to; it’s this Google Translate bio!
Horatio Clare is not only an excellent multi award-winning author but a radio producer and journalist too. He was born in London in 1973. He spent his childhood on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of south Wales with his brother Alexander. They both grew up there.
Before reading the English at the University of York, he attended the United World College of the Atlantic and Malvern College.
He worked as a producer on Front Row, Night Waves and The Verb at the BBC. He is the writer of two memoirs, Truant and Running for the hills.
A Single Swallow and Down to the Sea Ships are the pieces of his writing that he wrote about travel and nature.
He is the writer and editor of Sicily through Writer’s Eyes. A book named “Orison for a curlew” was an excellent piece of his writings that was published in 2015, in which he combined the travel and nature topic altogether. Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot an acclaimed children’s book was also published in 2015.
The experiences of his childhood are described in his first book, “Running for the Hills” (The best seller).
His second book Truant was published in 2008. His third book “A Single Swallow” (Following an epic journey from South Africa to South Wales) was published in 2009.
His first children book,” Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot” was published in 2015 by Firefly.
Clare wrote and edited “Sicily through Writer’s Eyes”, which was an anthology of writings about Sicily, and it played the role of a contributor to the collections Red City: Meeting with Remarkable Muslims and Marrakech through Writer’s Eyes.
The Sunday times, Financial Times, The Observer and Vogue, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the Sunday Times are the platforms where his Journalism appeared.
He won the Somerset Maugham Award his best-selling masterpiece “Running for the Hills” in 2007. He was also shortlisted for another award named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in the same year for the same masterpiece.
Later on, he was shortlisted for Dolman Best Travel Book Award for “A Single Swallow” in 2010. And in the same year, he won the Foreign Press Association Award for his travel feature 2010 “Rock of Ages – Ethiopian Highlands”
In 2015 he won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award for Down to the Sea in Ships.
In 2016 he wrote a book for Children name “Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot”, which later on was announced to be the best book of the year and which made him win the Branford Boase Award.
These are the achievement that made him become the excellent author of the era. And he’s an inspiration for the present writers.
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