Hugh Fleetwood Explained
Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) is a British writer and painter.
Biography
At 18 Fleetwood went to live to France, and later moved to Italy at the age of 21.[1] He remained in Italy for the next fourteen years.[1] Fleetwood had his first art exhibition in 1970 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He published his first novel, A Painter of Flowers, in 1971, and also designed the book's jacket.[1]
Fleetwood won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1974 for his second novel, The Girl Who Passed for Normal.[2] His 1977 novel The Order of Death formed the basis for the screenplay of the 1983 film Copkiller, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon. Fleetwood adapted the book for the film with director Roberto Faenza and Ennio de Concini.
After his return to England, he had two further solo art shows. He currently lives in London.[1]
In 2020, being unable to reach his studio to paint due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he finished work on seven novels begun in the previous years and revised two older novels. He published these nine books himself through the Amazon platform.
Bibliography
Novels
- 1972 - A Painter of Flowers, Hamish Hamilton (UK)/Viking (US)
- 1973 - The Girl Who Passed For Normal, H.H. (UK)/Stein and Day (US)
- 1974 - Foreign Affairs, H.H. (UK)/Stein & Day (US)
- 1975 - A Conditional Sentence, H.H. (UK)/Pocket Books (US)
- 1976 - A Picture of Innocence, H.H. (UK)/Pocket Books (US)
- 1977 - The Order of Death, H.H. (UK)/Simon & Schuster (US)
- 1978 - An Artist and a Magician (US: Roman Magic) H.H. (UK)/Atheneum (US)
- 1980 - The Godmother, H.H. (UK) (Revised edition 2020)
- 1981 - The Redeemer, H.H. (UK)/Simon & Schust. (US)
- 1983 - A Young Fair God, H.H. (UK)(Revised edition 2020)
- 1986 - Paradise, H.H. (UK)
- 1987 - The Past, H.H. (UK)
- 1989 - The Witch, Viking (UK & US)
- 1991 - The Mercy Killer , Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (UK)
- 1999 - Brothers, Serpent's Tail (UK)
- 2006 - The Dark Paintings, Bigfib (UK)
- 2013 - Our Lady of the Flies (Revised edition 2020)
- 2020 - The Portrait Painter
- 2020 - Freedom
- 2020 - The Vampire of Tlallpa
- 2020 - The Angel of Death: The Scottish Trilogy Book One
- 2020 - A Great Shot: The Scottish Trilogy Book Two
- 2020 - Complicity: The Scottish Trilogy Book Three
- 2020 - The Company of Finches
- 2022 - " Collected poems" Simple Edizioni, Macerata
Novellas
- 2004 - L & I, Millivres (UK)
- 2008 - The Other Half, Arcadia (UK)
Short stories
- 1979 - The Beast, H.H. (UK)/Atheneum (US)
- 1982 - Fictional Lives, H.H. (UK)
- 1984 - A Dance to the Glory of God, H.H. (UK)
- 1988 - Man Who Went Down with His Ship, H.H. (UK)
Travel writing
- 1985 - A Dangerous Place, H.H. (UK)
Poetry
- 2019 - "Sketches and Reflections", Zeus Publishing (Russia)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Hugh Fleetwood - About the artist. January 10, 2013.
- http://www.booktrust.org.uk/jlr-archive Booktrust - John Llewellyn Prize archive
