Nicholas Hogg

Hogg was born in Leicester, England, and received a degree in psychology from the University of East London.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/writing/2015/07/where-i-write-writing-in-longhand-makes-writing-mobile |title=Where I write; writing in longhand makes writing mobile |date=July 1, 2015 |website=Scottish Book Trust |access-date=April 10, 2019 }}

His first novel, "Show Me the Sky", was published in 2008 and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize.{{cite web |url=https://literarysofa.com/2016/01/28/writers-on-location-nicholas-hogg-on-tokyo-2/ |title=Writers on location – Nicholas Hogg on Tokyo |last=Costello |first=Isabel |date=January 28, 2016 |website=Literary Sofa |access-date=April 10, 2019 }} It centers on the hunt for a missing rock star who left behind only one clue: a page torn from the journal of a 19th-century Fijian missionary.{{cite book|last=Hogg|first=Nicholas|title=Show Me the Sky|publisher=Canongate|location=Edinburgh|year=2010|isbn=978-1-84767-189-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/showmesky0000hogg}} It was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which said that while some of the narrative strands developed too slowly, the parts of the book centering on the missionary's return to his homeland of Fiji with a group of Englishmen were a standout: "His vivid adventures at sea will remind many of Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-84767-189-9 |title=Show Me the Sky |author= |date=2015 |website=Publishers Weekly |access-date=May 28, 2019 }}

His second novel, "The Hummingbird and the Bear", was published in 2011 and won a K Blundell Trust award.{{cite web |url=https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/centreforcreativewriting/nicholas-hogg/ |title=Nicholas Hogg |author= |date=October 30, 2014 |website=Centre for Creative Writing |access-date=April 10, 2019 }}

He published his third novel, "Tokyo", in 2015. It is the story of a psychologist who, after a failed marriage, goes to Japan to find his long-lost love, while his daughter is being stalked by a disturbed cult survivor.{{cite web |url=https://www.litro.co.uk/2015/08/dark-light-an-interview-with-nicholas-hogg/ |title=Dark Light: an Interview with Nicholas Hogg |last=Brown |first=Wes |date=August 2015 |website=Litro |access-date=April 10, 2019 }} It was named one of the "Best Novels of 2015" by The Observer, which called it "an intelligent, gripping and stylish love story set against a beautifully drawn contemporary Japan."{{cite news |last=Preston |first=Alex |date=December 6, 2015 |title=The Best Novels of 2015 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/06/best-fiction-2015-marlon-james-jonathan-franzen-ishiguro |work=Observer |access-date=May 28, 2019 }} Kirkus Reviews said of it: "The father-daughter relationship is touching and real in this atmospheric noir thriller."{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/foreign-influence1/ |title=Foreign Influence |last=Hickley |first=Catherine |date=September 23, 2015 |website=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=May 28, 2019 }} The novel was adapted for the film Berlin Nobody (2023).{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=2022-01-27 |title=Eric Bana & Kiernan Shipka To Star In Thriller ‘Berlin Nobody’ For Scott Free & Augenschein; Protagonist Launches Sales On EFM Hot Pic |url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/kiernan-shipka-ridley-scott-eric-bana-berlin-nobody-movie-1234920901/ |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

Hogg also writes poetry and short fiction that has been published in various anthologies and journals. His debut poetry collection, "Missing Person" is released with Broken Sleep Books on October 31, 2023. His 2005 short story "Zen", about a father telling his toddler daughter the story of his time in a Japanese jail, won the New Ventures writing award and a £5000 prize.{{cite news |last=Pauli |first=Michelle |date=November 2, 2005 |title=New Writing Ventures announces inaugural award-winners |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/02/news.awardsandprizes |work=The Guardian |access-date=April 10, 2019}}

and his short story "Naked" was read by actor Nigel Anthony on BBC Radio 4.{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio4/fm/2007-11-07 |title=BBC Radio 4 FM Listings: November 7, 2007 |author= |date=November 7, 2007 |website=BBC |access-date=April 10, 2019 }}

He has written articles on cricket for the website ESPNcricinfo.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/841947.html |title=The writers who came to play |last=Hogg |first=Nicholas |date=2015-03-03 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=2019-03-23 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/719193.html |title=Tea garlands, spin demons and a seven-wicket haul |last=Hogg |first=Nicholas |date=2014-02-18 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=2019-03-23 }}

After graduating from university, Hogg spent years living abroad in Fiji, the United States, and Japan and he later lived in India, as well.{{cite book|last=Authors Cricket Club|title=The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4088-4045-0}} He sailed around the world three times as press officer on a Japanese NGO ship, Peace Boat, which promotes peaceful conflict resolution.{{cite news |last=Hogg |first=Nicholas |date=March 1, 2016 |title=Peace Ball |url=https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/peace-ball

|work=Blizzard, The Football Quarterly |access-date=April 10, 2019 }} He was employed in the early 2000s teaching language skills to refugees in London.

In 2012, Hogg and literary agent Charlie Campbell organized a new incarnation of the Authors Cricket Club, which counts among the players on its team, the Authors XI, writers including Sebastian Faulks, Tom Holland, Richard Beard and Anthony McGowan. The original Authors CC, which included members Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie, had played its last game exactly one hundred years earlier, in 1912. Hogg serves as vice-captain and is one of the team's regular bowlers. He contributed a chapter titled 'Cricket and Home', in which he recounted growing up obsessed with cricket as a working-class kid in Leicester, to the book that team members collectively wrote about their first season playing together: The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon.

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• Zen (New Ventures Writing Award winner, 2005)
• Naked (read on BBC Radio 4, 2007){{cite news |last=Knowall |first=Noel |date=October 31, 2007 |title=Nicholas Hogg story for Radio 4 |url=https://willesdenherald.blogspot.com/2007/10/nicholas-hogg-story-for-radio-4.html?m=0 |work=Willesden Herald |access-date=May 29, 2019 }}
• Paradise (Included in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 1; Pretend Genius Press, 2007. Stephen Moran, ed. {{ISBN|978-0-97785-262-8}})
• Gimme Danger (Included in Punk Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk; Anova Books, 2009. Janine Bullman, ed. {{ISBN|978-1-90603-266-1}})
• How the Tiger Got Its Stripes (Carve Magazine, 15 June 2009; Editor's Choice, 2009 Raymond Carver Contest){{cite web |url=https://www.carvezine.com/story/2009-summer-hogg |title=How the Tiger Got Its Stripes by Nicholas Hogg |author= |date=June 15, 2009 |website=Carve Magazine |access-date=May 29, 2019 }}
• Happy Birthday (Bridport Prize Runner-Up, 2009){{cite web |url=https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/content/2009-winners |title=2009 Winners |author= |website=The Bridport Prize |access-date=May 29, 2019 }}
• Father and Gun (Part of the 'Photo Stories' exhibition combining photography and short stories, 2011){{cite book |editor1-last=Limpede |editor1-first=Matthew |title=Carve Magazine 2009-2010 Anthology |publisher=Carve Magazine |page=140 |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-105-48099-7}}
• The Owl at the Gate (Included in Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces; Negative Press, 2012. Roelof Bakker, ed. {{ISBN|978-0-95738-280-0}})
• Jerusalem (London Magazine, 26 November 2015){{cite web |url=https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/article/contents/ |title=Contents - The London Magazine |author= |date=November 26, 2015 |website=London Magazine |access-date=May 29, 2019 }}

• Tattoo (2005)
• Mao (animated for the Berlin Poetry Festival, 2008){{cite web |url=https://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/index.php?cID=2390 |title=Short Britain |author= |date=2008 |website=Haus fur Poesie |access-date=May 30, 2019 }}

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