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James Hawes (born 1960) is a British novelist and popular historian who has been an official bestseller in both genres. He has written theatrically released screen adaptations of two of his works, and has appeared as an on-screen contributor in BBCTV's Art That Made Us (2022) and Mozart: Rise of a Genius (2023).
Hawes grew up in Gloucestershire, Edinburgh and Shropshire. As an undergraduate, he studied German at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1985–1986 he was in charge of CADW excavations at Blaenavon Ironworks, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. He went on to study for a Ph.D. on Nietzsche and German literature 1900–1914 at University College, London in 1987–89, before lecturing in German at Maynooth University (Ollscoil Mhá Nuad), Sheffield University and Swansea University.[ citation needed ]
Hawes has published six novels, two of which he has adapted as films, starring Rhys Ifans and Michael Sheen respectively. The first two, A White Merc with Fins (1996) and Rancid Aluminium (1997) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.[ citation needed ]
In 2005 Random House published his novel Speak for England, which predicted Brexit so accurately that in April 2017 the Observer declared "it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer 23.4.2017).[ full citation needed ] His Kafka biography, Excavating Kafka (2008), was adapted as a BBCTV documentary, Kafka Uncovered (2009). Englanders and Huns, a detailed history of Anglo-German relationships from 1864 to 1914, was shortlisted in the Paddy Power Political Books of the Year 2015.[ citation needed ]
His journalism and book-reviews have been widely and prominently published.
He taught on the Oxford University MSt. in Creative Writing from 2008-2023. Among his former students are Kit de Waal (My Name is Leon) Catherine Chanter (The Well) and Anne Youngson (Meet me at the Museum).[ citation needed ]
His book The Shortest History of Germany was published in May 2017. [1] It reached #2 in the Sunday Times list of non-fiction paperback bestsellers (May 2018). The Shortest History of England (2020) reached #4 in the Times list of non-fiction paperback bestsellers. His latest book is Brilliant Isles, a tie-in to the BBCTV series Art That Made Us (2022).
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