Nevil Shute (1899–1960)
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Nevil Shute Norway was born in Ealing, London, England, on January, 17 1899. At the age of 11, Norway played truant from his first preparatory school in Hammersmith. After he was discovered, he was sent to the Dragon School, Oxford, and from there to Shrewsbury. He was on holiday in Dublin at the visa mer time of the Easter rising of 1916 and acted as an ambulance driver, winning a commendation for gallant conduct. He then entered the Royal Military Academy, intending to be commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps, but a bad stammer led to his being failed at his final medical examination and returned to civil life. The last few months of the war were spent on home service as a private in the Suffolk Regiment. In 1919, Norway went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a third class honors course in engineering science in 1922. During the vacations he worked, unpaid, as an aeronautical engineer, for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon, and then for Geoffrey de Havilland's own firm, which he joined as an employee upon finishing at Oxford. He learned to fly and gained experience as a test observer. During the evenings he diligently wrote novels and short stories unperturbed by rejection slips from publishers. In 1924 Norway took the post of Chief Calculator to the Airship Guarantee Company, to work on the construction of the R100. In 1929 he became Deputy Chief Engineer under Barnes Wallis, and in the following year he flew to and from Canada in the R100. After the end of the airship project, jobs were hard to come by due to the depression so Shute started an aircraft manufacturing company, Airspeed Limited. This company was ultimately successful and built a large number of aircraft during the war. Shute remained joint managing director until 1938. When the business became too routine, he decided to get out of the rut and live by writing. The de Havillands, the first aviation job Shute had ever had, wound up buying Airspeed Ltd. He had by then enjoyed some success as a novelist and had sold the film rights of Lonely Road and Ruined City. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Norway joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Miscellaneous Weapons Department. Rising to Lieutenant Commander, he found experimenting with secret weapons a job after his own heart. But he found that his growing celebrity as a writer caused him to be in the Normandy landings on 6th June 1944, for the Ministry of Information, and to be sent to Burma as a correspondent in 1945. He entered Rangoon with the 15th Corps from Arakan. Soon after demobilisation in 1945 he emigrated to Australia and made his home in Langwarrin, Victoria. His output of novels, which began with Marazan (1926) continued to the end. Shute was one of the leading aeronautical engineers in Britain during the 30's and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. When he began writing in the 20's, he feared that a reputation as a writer of fiction might harm his engineering career. For this reason he published under his two Christian names, Nevil Shute and engineered under his "real" name, Nevil S. Norway. Nevil Shute Norway died in Melbourne on January, 12 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice / Pied Piper / The Far Country / The Chequer Board / No Highway (1942) 42 exemplar
A Town Like Alice 4 exemplar
See List 2 exemplar
The Big Country (includes A Town Like Alice & Alice to Nowhere) - Volume 2 Rough Living (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Formynderen 1 1 exemplar
Obras completas : Nevil Shute (II) 1 exemplar
The Nevil Shute Collection (22 Books Including On The Beach, A Town Like Alice, Trustee from the Toolroom, Round the… (2015) 1 exemplar
Förmyndaren 1 exemplar
Trustees From the Toolroom 1 exemplar
Million tomorrow. On the Beach. Space doctor 1 exemplar
Крысолов. На берегу 1 exemplar
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On the Beach [2000 film] — Original book — 9 exemplar
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Kirjavaliot - Mengelen pojat (The boys from Brazil) / Luottamustehtävä (Trustee from the toolroom) / Suden sukua (The… (1980) 3 exemplar
Pied Piper [1942 film] — Original book — 2 exemplar
Het Beste Boek 39: Majoor Thompson in Frankrijk / Spel met de dood / En toen gebeurde het / De wandelstok (1968) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Trustee from the Toolroom • The Leopard • The Triumph of Surgery • Hawaii (1961) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Good Children Don't Kill, A Place In The Woods, A Town Like Alice, Snatch, The New Year (1969) 2 exemplar
The Day After Doomsday; Earth Abides; I Am Legend; On The Beach; Alas, Babylon; Lucifer's Hammer (Leather Bound)(5… (2012) 2 exemplar
De grote Ceasar; De tijgerkat; De goden van Hawaii; Diamanten voor Janice — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Um túmulo na areia - Etapas da cirurgia - Trilhas sangrentas - A bruxa de Mount Mellyn - Volta ao paraíso — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 55 - Deborah. Mein Vater August Renoir. Das Geschenk der Wildnis. Der Strasse fern (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Het Beste Boek 55: Het kind van de rekening / De zomer van de rode wolf / De drie dochters van Madame Liang / Geen… (1972) 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Shute, Nevil
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Norway, Nevil Shute
- Födelsedag
- 1899-01-17
- Avled
- 1960-01-12
- Begravningsplats
- Cremated
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Storbritannien
Australien - Födelseort
- Somerset Road, Ealing, London, England, Storbritannien
- Dödsort
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australien
- Dödsorsak
- stroke
- Bostadsorter
- Langwarrin, Victoria, Australien
- Utbildning
- The Dragon School, Oxford
Shrewsbury School
Balliol College, University of Oxford (BS|1922)
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Yrken
- engineer (Aeronautical)
writer
novelist - Relationer
- Norway, Arthur H. (father)
Hamilton Norway, Mrs. (mother)
Norway, G. (grandmother)
Twort, Flora (friend) - Organisationer
- Suffolk Regiment (WWI)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (WWII) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society
- Agent
- AP Watt
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January 2022: Nevil Shute i Monthly Author Reads (juni 2022)
Found: Trial of ex-soldier who kills in self - defence. By Nevil Shute? i Name that Book (maj 2021)
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