Nick Coleman (British writer)

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Nick Coleman (born 1960) is a British writer.

Born in Buckinghamshire in 1960, Coleman grew up in Cambridgeshire and has lived{{when|date=January 2022}} in London since 1982. He is a former music editor of Time Out and an arts and music journalist for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. In 2010 he wrote The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, about coming to terms with his own experience five years earlier of hearing loss.,{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/02/train-night-nick-coleman-review | title=The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman – review | work=The Observer | date=2 February 2012 | accessdate=24 July 2016 | author=Adams, Tim}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jan/29/nick-coleman-going-deaf-football | title= I fought going deaf with a day at the football | work=The Observer | author= Colman, Nick|date=29 January 2012 | accessdate=24 July 2016}}{{cite news | url=http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/395704/I-taught-myself-to-hear-music-again | title=I taught myself to hear music again | work=Sunday Express | date=30 April 2013 | accessdate=24 July 2016 | author=Della-Ragione, Joanna}}The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss. Jonathan Cape, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0224093576}} published in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2012.

His other books are the novel, Pillow Man (2015),{{cite web | title=inauthor:"Nick Coleman" | url=https://www.google.com.au/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Nick+Coleman%22 | access-date=18 January 2022}}

{{cite web | title=Nick Coleman | website=Goodreads | url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26221.Nick_Coleman | access-date=18 January 2022}} which was a runner-up for the McKitterick Prize, and Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life (2018), an exploration of what it means to listen to, and be compelled by, singing.{{cite web | title=McKitterick Prize | website=The Society of Authors | date=8 May 2020 | url=https://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Society-of-Authors-Awards/McKitterick/Past-winners | access-date=18 January 2022}}