Chatwin
Proper noun
Meaning
Chatwin (plural Chatwins)
A surname.
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Examples
For company on that trip, I had a copy of ‘In Patagonia’ in my backpack, a lyrical text by Bruce Chatwin that charts a journey through the Argentine Patagonia, mixing travelogue, journalism, history and memoir.
Mr. Chatwin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and Juris Doctor (law) degree from the University of Saskatchewan.
His personal taste in literature is strongly focused on non-fiction and his favorite writers include the great British travel writers such as Eric Newby, Jan Morris, Bruce Chatwin, HV Morton, and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
But it is his clipped writing style, short sentences and acute observations that make Chatwin such an elegant literary craftsman.
Writers such as J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess, Bruce Chatwin, Robertson Davies, John Fowles, Nick Hornby, Russell Hoban, Somerset Maugham and V.S. Pritchett narrowly missed the final hundred.
Bruce Chatwin was described by his editor, Susannah Clapp, as ‘a connoisseur of the extraordinary’.