Iain Sinclair

For the Australian politician, see Ian Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker.

Sinclair was born on June 11, 1943. His education includes studies at Trinity College (Dublin), Courtauld Institute of Art, and London School of Film Technique (now London Film School).

Much of his early work was poetry, followed by mostly fiction, then non-fiction.

One of his earliest works is Back Garden Poems, published in 1970. He is best known for the novel Downriver published in 1991 which won the James Tait Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Prize. It envisages the UK under the rule of the Widow, a grotesque version of Margaret Thatcher as viewed by her harshest critics who supposedly established a one party state in a fifth term. One of his most recent works is the non-fiction London Orbital; the hard cover edition was published in 2002, along with a documentary film of the same name and subject (the paperback version came out in 2003). It describes the series of trips he took, on foot, following the M25, London's outer-ring motorway.

Written works

Back Garden Poems - poetry (1970)
The Kodak Mantra Diaries: Allan Ginsberg in London- documentary (1971)
Muscat's Wurm - poetry (1972)
The Birth Rug - poetry (1973)
Lud Heat - poetry, 1975
Suicide Bridge - poetry, 1979
Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970-1987 - poetry 1987
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings - fiction, 1987
Downriver - novel, 1991
Jack Elam's Other Eye - poetry
Radon Daughters - novel, 1994
The Ebbing of the Kraft - poetry, 1997
Lights out for the Territory - documentary, 1997
Slow Chocolate Autopsy - fiction, 1997
Crash - essay, 1999
Liquid City - non-fiction, 1999 (with Marc Atkins)
Rodinsky's Room - non-fiction, 1999 (with Rachel Lichtenstein)
Sorry Meniscus - essay, 1999
Landor's Tower - novel, 2001
London Orbital (book) - non-fiction, 2002
Dining on Stones - novel, 2004

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