Hal Duncan
- January 6, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Hal Duncan |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 21, 1971(1971-10-21) |
| Age | 53 |
| Birthplace | Kilwinning |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | Scotland |
| Horoscope | Libra |
Hal Duncan Biography
| Name | Hal Duncan |
| Birthday | Oct 21 |
| Birth Year | 1971 |
| Place Of Birth | Kilwinning |
| Home Town | Scotland |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
Hal Duncan is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 21, 1971 in Kilwinning, Scotland, United Kingdom. Hal Duncan was born in Kilwinning in Ayrshire in 1971. He grew up in “small town Ayrshire” and then moved to Glasgow where he received his degree from Glasgow University. He was a computer programmer before he became a full-time writer. This job he left in 2005.
Monkeybrain published Escape from Hell! in 2008 for Monkeybrain. It was inspired by Escape from New York in 1981 and Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Four characters (“a hitman and a hooker, an hobo, and a homo”) attempt to escape Hell. This dystopian Manhattan is here depicted as a dystopian city in which all the damned are televised in continuous punishment. Duncan stated that he plans two sequels to it: Assault! Heaven! And Battle! For the Planet! The Dead!
He also wrote a musical, Nowhere Town, that he defines a “punk rock opera” and a “gay punk Orpheus”. It has been premiered in June 2010 in Chicago by the University theatre group, directed by Beth Walker. He made the libretto and the vocal tracks available for download through his blog.
It has been translated into French by Florence Dolisi as Evadés de l’Enfer!, being published by Éditions Gallimard in October 2010, and in Finnish by Einari Aaltonen.
Among the stories he published were The Angel of Gamblers in Eidolon II, edited and edited by Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G. Byrne (2006) and The Last Straw in Glorifying Terrorism edited by Farah Mendelsohn (2007) and The Tower of Morning’s Bones in Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedi (2008). The Tower of Morning’s Bones was one of four stories previously published in Errata. He was also a participant in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s Last Drink Bird Head (2009). This experiment involved 70 writers being asked the same question (“Who, or what is Last Drink Bird Head?” Ministry of Whimsy published the article, with all profits going to the ProLiteracy Worldwide Organization.
Hal Duncan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Hal Duncan is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hal Duncan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Hal Duncan, born 21 October 1971, real-name Alasdair is a Scottish science fiction writer and fantasy author.
He has published two poetry collections, Sonnets for Orpheus, and The Lucifer Cantos, in limited editions of 24 and 26 copies, respectively, by Papaveria Press, and most of his poetry is now available publicly through his blog. He believes that poetry is not worth the money. If I want to be read, I would post it online for people to read.
For his activity as a blogger he has been nominated for the 2009/2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award in the field of “Gentle Advocacy” (“In recognition of individuals willing to enter into blunt discourse about controversial issues”), but lost the award to Ay-leen the Peacemaker from Beyond Victoriana. In 2009 he was nominated for the same award but in the category “Expanding Our Vocabulary” (“In recognition of writers whose fiction or nonfiction exposes readers to new words and, often, new ideas”). The award went to John Clute.
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Its sequel, Ink – The Book of All Hours 2, was published in February 2007. Its two parts are linked to the two remaining seasons, winter (entitled “Hinter’s Knights”) and spring (“Eastern Mourning”), and it continues the narrative (and the style) of the first instalment. The ancient works here referred to are Euripides’s The Bacchae and the Old Testament. Ink has been shortlisted for the 2011 Tähtivaeltaja Awards.
Facts & Trivia
Hal Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Hal Duncan celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.
In 2017 he published for Lethe Press the Delaneyesque novella Susurrus On Mars, set in a far future terraformed Mars. A love story patterned after ancient Greece is interspersed with sections on botany and the mythical origins of plants.