Lindsay Clarke
Lindsay Clarke (born 1939, Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British novelist. He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King's College, Cambridge. The landscape of hills, moors and crags around Halifax informed the growth of his imagination, while King's refined his sensibility and sharpened his intellect. His debut novel, ''Sunday Whiteman'', was shortlisted for the David Higham First Novel Award, and his second novel ''The Chymical Wedding'', partly inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood, won the Whitbread Prize in 1989. Clarke's most recent novel is ''The Water Theatre'' (published in September 2010 bAlma Books. In her review of the novel in ''The Times'' Antonia Senior said "There is nothing small about this book. It is huge in scope, in energy, in heart...It is difficult to remember a recent book that is at once so beautiful and yet so thought provoking." ''The Water Theatre'' was selected as a winner of the inaugural Fiction Uncovered competition in 2011 and ...
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