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Philipp Blom (born 1970) is a German historian, novelist, journalist and translator.

Biography

Blom was born in

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, Germany, grew up in

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, and studied in

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and

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. He holds a DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University. After living and working in London, Paris and Vienna he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife

Veronica Buckley Veronica Buckley (born 1956) is a writer and biographer. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1979 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in French with philosophy, and was awarded a postgraduate schola ...

. His historical works include ''To Have and To Hold'', a history of collectors and collecting, and ''Encyclopédie'' (US edition: ''Enlightening the World''), a history of the ''Encyclopaedia'' by Diderot and d'Alembert that sparked the Enlightenment in France. In ''The Vertigo Years'', Blom argues that the break with the past that is often associated with the trauma of World War I actually had its roots in the years before the war from 1900–1914. Blom followed this with ''Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918–1938'', a cultural history of the interwar years. Blom has published two novels: ''The Simmons Papers'' and ''Luxor'' (in German). He has also published a guide to Austrian wines, ''The Wines of Austria'',''The Wines of Austria'', Faber & Faber, London, 2000; reissued by Mitchell Beazley, London, 2006 and an English translation of Geert Mak's ''Amsterdam'' (1999) (Blom has a Dutch mother and speaks the language as well). As a journalist, Blom has written for the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Financial Times'', ''The Independent'', ''The Guardian'', and the ''Sunday Telegraph'' in Britain, for various German-language publications (''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', ''Die Zeit'', ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Financial Times Deutschland'', ''Berliner Zeitung'', ''Der Standard'', ''Die Tageszeitung''), and for ''Vrij Nederland'' in the Netherlands, as well as for other magazines and journals, the BBC, and German radio stations. He currently hosts a live cultural programme, "Von Tag zu Tag", on station Ö1 on Austrian National Radio. Recently, Blom has written the libretto for an opera, ''Soliman'', a project with the composer Joost van Kerkhooven, and has provided translations for stage productions (''The Producers'' for the Établissement Ronacher, and ''

La Colombe ''La Colombe'' (''The Dove'') is an ''opéra comique'' in two acts by Charles Gounod with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré based on the poem ''Le Faucon'' by Jean de la Fontaine. It premiered in a one-act version at the Theater der St ...

'' for the Schönbrunn Theatre, Vienna).

Works

; In English * * * * * * * * ; In other languages * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Philipp Blom's website
'' The Telegraph'', 8 August 2004
Review of ''The Vertigo Years'', ''The Guardian'' 13 September 2008Link to Station Ö1 on Austrian National Radio
* ttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/22610 On The Edge Adam Kirsch review of ''The Vertigo Years'' from ''

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Review of "Wicked Company" in www.theglobaldispatches.com

Stories in which we believe, market, religion, science; lecture in Groningen (November 2012)
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