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Nicholas Royle


Born
in Cheshire, England
January 01, 1963

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Literary Criticism


Nicholas Royle is an English writer. He is the author of seven novels, two novellas and a short story collection. He has edited sixteen anthologies of short stories. A senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. He works as a fiction reviewer for The Independent and the Warwick Review and as an editor for Salt Publishing.

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Hills of dreams

Picture Everyone knows Sheffield is built on hills. Seven of them. Knowing it is one thing, feeling it another. 
 
Invited to be ‘in conversation’ with Tony White at Site Gallery, for an event that is part of Strong Language, curated by Tim Etchells, which in turn is part of the Off the Shelf festival, I decide to travel in the direction of Sheffield by train and alight at Dore & Totley, on the outskirts Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.14 · 27,897 ratings · 1,469 reviews · 180 distinct works • Similar authors
First Novel
3.81 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Best British Short Stories ...
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White Spines: Confessions o...
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The Best British Short Stor...
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“There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida
tags: derrida, tension, text
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“Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida
tags: deferring, derrida, differance
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“In truth, Derrida has always been preoccupied (in the strongest senses of that word) by what precedes or exceeds language.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida
tags: language, preoccupation, sense
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