Robert Macfarlane

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Macfarlane
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 15, 1976(1976-08-15)
Age	48
Birthplace	Halam
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Robert Macfarlane Biography

Robert Macfarlane is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 15, 1976 in Halam, England, United Kingdom.

Macfarlane was born in Halam in Nottinghamshire and attended Nottingham High School. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He began a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2000, and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the College. His father – Dr John Macfarlane, is a renowned respiratory physician who published the CURB-65 score of pneumonia in

2003. His brother – Dr James Macfarlane, is also a consultant physician in respiratory medicine.

Macfarlane’s first book, Mountains of the Mind, was published in 2003 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It is an account of the development of Western attitudes to mountains and precipitous landscapes, and takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The book asks why people, including Macfarlane, are drawn to mountains despite their obvious dangers, and examines the powerful and sometimes fatal hold that mountains can come to have over the imagination. The Irish Times described the book as “a new kind of exploration writing, perhaps even the birth of a new genre, which demands a new category of its own.”

Robert Macfarlane Net Worth

Robert Macfarlane is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Macfarlane 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017) and Underland (2019). In 2017 he received The EM Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to China scholar Julia Lovell.

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Macfarlane’s 2012 book “Holloway” was adapted into a short film shot on Super-8 by the film-maker Adam Scovell.

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Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Robert Macfarlane celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.

Landmarks, a book that celebrates and defends the language of landscape, was published in the UK in March 2015. A version of its first chapter, published in The Guardian as The Word-Hoard, went viral, and the book became a Sunday Times number one bestseller. It was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Landmarks is described on the cover as “a field guide to the literature of nature, and a vast glossary collecting thousands of the remarkable terms used in dozens of the languages and dialects of Britain and Ireland to describe and denote aspects of terrain, weather, and nature”. Each of the book’s chapters explores the landscapes and style of a writer or writers, as Macfarlane travels to meet farmers, sailors, walkers, glossarians, artists, poets and others who have developed intense and committing relationships with their chosen places. The chapter of the book concerning Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorm mountains was adapted for television by BBC4 and BBC Scotland. Macfarlane’s detailed writing style, and his frequent references to dialect vocabulary, were satirised in a February 2016 edition of Private Eye by Craig Brown in the magazine’s regular “Diary” feature. Landmarks was published in the US in August 2016. It was described by Tom Shippey in The Wall Street Journal as a book that “teaches us to love our world, even the parts of it that we have neglected. Mr Macfarlane is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation.”

Where was Robert Macfarlane born?

Halam, United Kingdom

What genre is Robert Macfarlane?

Robert Macfarlane
Known for| Nature writing
Notable work| Mountains of the Mind; The Wild Places; The Old Ways; Landmarks; The Lost Words; Underland

What is the meaning of MacFarlane?

Definition of macfarlane : a heavy caped overcoat with slit sides.

What did Robert MacFarlane study?

After completing his BA at Pembroke (1994-97), he spent two years studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a year teaching at a university in Beijing, before returning to Cambridge for his PhD. He is presently Reader in Literature and the Environmental Humanities in the Faculty of English.

What is the hiding place Robert Macfarlane about?

He explores the paintings within an Arctic sea cave; races through a dark matter lab operating underneath the North Sea; climbs pits in Slovenia where warring factions dumped bodies; dangles inside a glacier in Greenland; and enters a secure underground Finnish nuclear waste facility called Onkalo , which means “cave” …