Nick Bantock
Nick Bantock (Nicholas Bantock) was born on July 14th, 1949 and is currently 75 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.
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- J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings Series.
- Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium Series.
Nick Bantock: F.A.Q
When was Nick Bantock Born? How old is Nick Bantock?
Nick Bantock was born on July 14th, 1949. Nick Bantock is currently 75 years old.
Where was Nick Bantock Born?
Nick Bantock was born in Stourbridge, England and is British.
What was the first book Nick Bantock wrote?
The first book written by Nick Bantock was There Was An Old Lady, published in 1990.
What was the most recent book Nick Bantock wrote?
His most recently released work was The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles on November 7th, 2023.
Will there be any more books by Nick Bantock?
Nick Bantock does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.
How many books has Nick Bantock written?
Nick Bantock has written 25 books. 4 books in the Griffin & Sabine Series, 3 books in the Griffin & Sabine: Morning Star Series, 5 Standalone Novels, 1 book in the Short Story Collections, 7 books in the Picture Books, 5 books in the Non-Fiction Books.