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Nick Drake (born 1961) is a British poet, playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and novelist. [1] [2]
Nick Drake (born 1961) is a British poet, playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and novelist. [1] [2]
Nick Drake was born near London, England, in 1961. [3] His father was from Prague, Czechoslovakia, and his mother from Northampton. [2]
He first went to school in Cookham, Berkshire, and then St Albans Grammar School. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. [2]
Drake has been Literary Associate at the National Theatre, then Literary Manager at the Bush Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, and then Head of Development at Intermedia Films. [3]
He has also taught creative writing at the Arvon Foundation and Goldsmiths' College. [3]
Drake became a full-time freelance writer in 2002. [3]
His poems include "From The Song Dynasty" [4] and "Static". [5]
"The Farewell Glacier" was the name of both a poem and a collection by Drake, published in 2012, after he had participated in Cape Farewell's 2010 Arctic Expedition to Svalbard. [3]
Drake's "choral play" for the stage, All the Angels , was first performed in 2015 at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre. [6]
He wrote the screenplay for the Australian film based on philosopher Raimond Gaita's autobiography, Romulus, My Father , which starred Eric Bana as Gaita's father. [3]
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