Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock (Nicholas Bantock) was born on July 14th, 1949 and is currently 76 years old. Nick Bantock was born in Stourbridge, England.

Even though Nick Bantock made his name as an artist, he is also a bestselling author with nearly a dozen of his novels appearing on bestseller lists. His books have over the years sold more than 5 million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages.

SF magazine’s Weird Tales once listed Nick Bantock among the best 85 storytellers of the entire century. He has also written stories and articles for many international magazines and newspapers. His prints, paintings, collages, sculptures, and drawings have been exhibited in North America, the United Kingdom, and France.

In 2010, Nick exhibited at the Denver-based Museum of Anthropology and has also had his works exhibited in numerous collections across the globe. He won a lifetime BAFTA Award for Ceremony of Innocence, a CD-ROM game featuring Ben Kingsley and Isabella Rossolini which he created with Peter Gabriel’s Real World.

Nick Bantock has designed covers for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in addition to providing the book covers for more than 300 books. He has also designed posters for plays by Alec Guinness and Tom Stoppard in London. He has also had several of his books optioned for the stage and film.

For two decades, he has read to and spoken to audiences across Australia, North America, and Europe. Nick has given motivational speeches and keynote addresses to many organizations and leaders of corporations in addition to giving dramatic readings on stage, and radio.

A man of many talents, Nick Bantock has trained as a psychotherapist, worked in the East End at a betting shop, and designed and built a bordello in New Orleans and a house that combined Russian and Indonesian building styles.

In 1991, Nick Bantock published Griffin and Sabine, which tells the story of Griffin, a designer of postcards from the United Kingdom. One day, he gets a letter from a woman named Sabine who seems to have a crush on his artwork and him. But at its core, the book is all about long-distance correspondence, lust, and secret love.

Sabine’s Notebook is the second novel of the Griffin & Sabine series which follows on from the first of the series. Griffins is frightened by his connection to Sabine and flees England heading to Italy, Japan, and Australia on a night sea journey. He pens a letter to Sabine but as summer approaches he is overcome by trepidation.

The Trickster’s Hat is a nonfiction work that Nick Bantock published in 2014. This is a work in which Nick makes use of his whimsical and popular workshops to teach readers to become better creators through out-of-the-box thinking and mischief.

Related Authors

Fans of Nick Bantock also enjoy these authors:

1. William Shakespeare, author of the Tragedy Plays.
2. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter Series.
3. Jane Austen, author of: Pride and Prejudice.
4. Agatha Christie, author of: And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians.
5. Ray Bradbury, author of: Fahrenheit 451.

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