Nicholas Royle
{{Short description|English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer}}
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| birth_place = {{Nowrap|Manchester, England, United Kingdom}}
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| occupation = Writer
| nationality = British
| period = (1993–present)
| genre = Literary fiction/Crime fiction/Horror
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| website = {{URL|http://www.nicholasroyle.com/}}
}}Nicholas Royle (born 20 March 1963 in Manchester){{cite web|url=http://www.saltpublishing.com/assets/samples/9781844714810samp.pdf|title=Biography of Nicholas Royle on Salt website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708141227/http://www.saltpublishing.com/assets/samples/9781844714810samp.pdf|archive-date=8 July 2008|df=dmy-all}} is an English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer.{{cite web|url=http://www.nicholasroyle.com/biography.html|title=Biography on author's website}}
Literary career
=Author=
Royle has written seven novels: Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director’s Cut, Antwerp, Regicide and First Novel.{{cite web|url=http://www.nicholasroyle.com/novels.html| title=Bibliography on author's website}} He also claims to have written more than 100 short stories, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Bad Idea, with his short story Confessions of a Serial Coat Snatcher appearing in the 2008 Bad Idea Anthology.{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Jack |author2=Daniel Stacey|title=Bad Idea Anthology: The Best of Modern Storytelling |date=22 May 2008 |publisher=Anova Books |isbn=9781906032302 }} He has written two short-story collections: Mortality and Ornithology.
==Awards==
Royle has won a British Fantasy Award three times: Best Anthology in 1992 and 1993 and Best Short Story in 1993. He has been nominated for Best Short Story three further times.{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?443|title=Award Bibliography: Nicholas Royle|publisher= ISFDB}}
The Matter of the Heart won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 1997.{{cite web|url=http://book.consumerhelpweb.com/awards/badsex/winners.htm|title=Bad Sex Award Winners|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315152900/http://book.consumerhelpweb.com/awards/badsex/winners.htm|archive-date=15 March 2012|df=dmy-all}}
=Editor=
As an editor, Royle is best known for having edited{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/11181-nicholas-royle-first-novel-interview-q-and-a|work=The Quietus|author=Carole Huston|date=21 January 2013|title=Nicholas Royle: From First Novel To First Novel }} The Lighthouse, by Alison Moore, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize,{{cite web|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/alison-moore|title=Alison Moore|publisher=Man Booker Prize|access-date=17 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921235750/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/alison-moore|archive-date=21 September 2012|df=dmy-all}} and The Many by Wyl Menmuir, which was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/4538/|title=Graduate author on Man Booker Prize longlist|publisher=Manchester Metropolitan University|date= 27 July 2016}}
He has also edited more than two dozen anthologies including A Book of Two Halves, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams, The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories, and Dreams Never End (Tindal Street Press) and several other novels. He has been series editor of ‘Best British Short Stories’ (Salt) since it launched in 2011.
=Publisher=
Royle owns and manages Nightjar Press, which publishes short stories as signed, limited edition, chapbooks.{{cite web|url=http://nightjarpress.weebly.com/about.html|title=About Nightjar Press}} Nightjar Press has published authors including M. John Harrison, Christopher Kenworthy, Joel Lane, Alison Moore and Michael Marshall Smith{{cite web|url=http://nightjarpress.weebly.com/authors.html|title=Nightjar Press Authors}}
Academic career
Royle was a Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University{{cite web|url=http://www2.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/english/academic-staff/?profileID=271|title=Manchester Metropolitan University Staff Profile|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419103206/http://www2.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/english/academic-staff/?profileID=271|archive-date=19 April 2013|df=dmy-all}} From 2006 to 2022 and was Chair of Judges for the Manchester Fiction Prize from its launch in 2009 until he left the university in 2022.
Bibliography
=Novels=
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Counterparts |year=1995 |isbn=9780140243864 |publisher=Penguin |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Saxophone Dreams |year=1996 |isbn=9780140243871 |publisher=Penguin |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=The Matter of the Heart |year=1997 |isbn=9780349109565 |publisher=Abacus |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=The Director's Cut |year=2001 |isbn=9780349114309 |publisher=Abacus |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Antwerp |year=2005 |isbn=9781852427856 |publisher=Serpent's Tail |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Regicide |year=2011 |isbn=9781907992018 |publisher=Serpent's Tail |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=First Novel |year=2013 |isbn=9780224096980 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |author-mask=2}}
=Novellas=
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=The Enigma of Departure |year=2008 |isbn=9781905834204 |publisher=PS Publishing |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=The Appetite |year=2008 |isbn=9781906331023 |publisher=Gray Friar Press |author-mask=2}}
=Short story collections=
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Mortality |year=2011 |isbn=9781852424763 |publisher=Serpent's Tail |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=Ornithology |year=2017 |isbn=9780995596603 |publisher=Confingo |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories |year=2018 |isbn=9781783800223 |publisher=Swan River Press |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Royle |title=London Gothic |year=2020 |isbn=9780995596665 |publisher=Confingo |author-mask=2}}
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book |last=Royle |first=Nicholas |title=White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector |publisher=Salt Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=9781784632137 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Royle |first=Nicholas |title=Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf |publisher=Salt Publishing |year=2024 |isbn=9781784633073 |author-mask=2}}
Personal life
Royle has two children - Charlie and Isabella - and lives in both Manchester and London.
Royle shares his name with Nicholas Royle (born 1957) who is an authority on Jacques Derrida, and the author of textbooks, including The Uncanny, and a novel, Quilt. The two writers are often confused with each other.{{cite web|url=http://wordsandfixtures.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/nicholas-royle-vs-nicholas-royle-like.html|publisher=Words & Fixtures|title=Nicholas Royle vs Nicholas Royle|date=15 February 2011}}
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.nicholasroyle.com}}
- {{isfdb name|id=443|name=Nicholas Royle}}
- [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/dark-entries/ Interview with 3:AM]
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Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English short story writers
Category:Writers from Manchester
Category:Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University
Category:English male novelists
Category:21st-century English male writers
Category:English horror writers
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