Draft:Nick Hunt (writer)
Nick Hunt (writer)
[edit]Nick Hunt (born 21st May 1981) is the son of actress Caroline Hunt[1] and Northern Irish screenwriter Ron Hutchinson. He is the grandson of theatre director Hugh Hunt[2] and grandnephew of the explorer John Hunt, Baron Hunt. His first book Walking the Woods and the Water (Nicholas Brealey 2014), traced the same route Patrick Leigh Fermor walked in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Walking the Woods and the Water is published in four languages. His other travel books include Where the Wild Winds Are (Nicholas Brealey 2017) and Outlandish (John Murray 2021). Nick is a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award[3]. Walking the Woods and the Water and Where the Wild Winds Are were both finalists for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year in 2015 and 2017, while Outlandish was chosen as Stanford’s Book of the Month in June 2021.[4]
Other publications include The Parakeeting of London (Paradise Road 2019), a work of gonzo ornithology and Loss Soup and Other Stories (Sumeru 2022).
Red Smoking Mirror (Swift, 2023) was Nick Hunt's debut novel. It was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place.[5]
He has contributed to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Financial Times, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Granta, The Ecologist, Emergence, BBC Radio 4, and Resonance FM.
Nick is co-director of the Dark Mountain Project begun in 2009 by author Paul Kingsnorth and writer and social activist Dougald Hine.
References
[edit]- https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2017/10/where-wild-winds-are-nick-hunt-weathers-storms-europe
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-walking-the-woods-and-the-water-by-nick-hunt-1417184058?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LatestHeadlines
- https://www.the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/long-and-windy-road
- https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/fiction/red-smoking-mirror-nick-hunt-book-review-michael-lapointe
- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-strangest-landscapes-are-close-to-home/
- https://literaryreview.co.uk/journey-to-the-end-of-the-world
- https://literaryreview.co.uk/let-it-blow
External links
[edit]- ^ "Caroline Hunt - Actress". IMDb.
- ^ "Hugh Hunt". www.dib.ie.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Journey of a Lifetime, 2010: Nick Hunt". BBC.
- ^ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2025 presented by Viking | Stanfords". www.stanfords.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2025 presented by Viking | Stanfords". www.stanfords.co.uk.