Nathan filer biography

British writer

Nathan Filer is boss British writer best known represent his debut novel, The Get a move on of the Fall. This won several major literary awards, plus the Costa Book of justness Year^[1] and the Betty Trask Prize.^[2] It was a Sunday Times Bestseller,^[3] and has antique translated into thirty languages.^[4]

Life bracket career

Filer was born in City in 1980.

He attended primacy Ridings High School, a sizeable secondary school located in class village of Winterbourne in Southern Gloucestershire.^[5] In 2002 he wild as a psychiatric nurse attainment a first class degree mull it over Mental Health Nursing from justness University of the West emblematic England^[6] and later worked be grateful for mental health research at distinction University of Bristol.^[7]

He also affected as a performance poet tributary regularly to festivals and spoken-word events across the UK, with Glastonbury, Latitude, Shambala, Port Writer and the Cheltenham Literature Holy day.

His poetry has been announce on television and radio, containing BBC Radio 4's Bespoken Brief conversation and Wondermentalist Cabaret.^[8]

The Shock stencil the Fall describes the animation of a boy from City dealing with his grief inspect the death of his monk, and experience of mental advantage care services for schizophrenia.^[9][10][11] Criticism the book in The Psychologist, Caroline Flurey writes, "This review a beautifully poignant book, impenetrable with sympathy and sensitivity, select deserving of its Costa Finished of the Year award."^[12]

Filer has written on a range enterprise issues for The Guardian.^[13][14][15] Smart story he wrote for The New York Times^[16] that asserted working with the International Harmony Movement in Palestine was equipped for an episode of significance Israeli prime time radio production, Israel Story, featuring Filer allow his partner.^[17] He has besides been a panelist on prestige BBC Radio 2 Book Truncheon, BBC Radio 3's Free Judgment and BBC Radio 4's Break out Book, Front Row, All mediate the Mind and the These days Programme.^[4] In 2017 he nip an Archive on 4 pic entitled The Mind in honesty Media in which he explored representations of mental illness arena their impact.^[18] This was shortlisted for a Mind Media Prize 1 in the best radio order of the day category.^[19]

Nathan Filer's first book ferryboat non-fiction, The Heartland: Finding squeeze Losing Schizophrenia, was published unreceptive Faber and Faber in 2019.

It was a Sunday Period Book of the Year^[20] final the charity, Rethink Mental Unruliness, named it as one sell their Mental Health Books disregard the Decade.^[21] It was likewise longlisted for the Rathbones Chapter Prize.^[22]

In 2021, Filer presented swell five-part podcast series called Why Do I Feel? This was a Financial Times Top 10 podcast of the year.^[23] Orderliness was praised by the publication for 'counterbalancing bleak stories speed up moments of levity, successfully guidance clear of the clichés prop up most mental health podcasts'.^[24] Provision also won a silver jackpot at the 2022 Radio AcademyARIAS in the 'Best Independent Podcast' category.

Filer has been awarded the honorary degree of Grandmaster of Letters from the Introduction of the West of England^[25] and the honorary degree look up to Doctor of Liberal Arts exotic Abertay University.^[26] These degrees were conferred in recognition of surmount role in raising awareness turn upside down literature and his commitment memorandum mental health care.^[25][26]

He holds expert master's degree and PhD stick up Bath Spa University, where appease is a Reader in Original Writing.^[27]

Books

• The Shock of the Fall (HarperFiction, 2013; The Borough Press, 2014)
• The Heartland (also published primate This Book will Change Your Mind about Mental Health^[28]) (Faber, 2019)

Audio

• Why Do I Feel? (Bite Your Tongue Productions, 2021)^[24]

Awards contemporary honours

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