Education
He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King"s College Cambridge.
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He worked in education for many years, in Africa, America and the United Kingdom, before becoming a full-time writer Clarke lectures in creative writing at Cardiff University, and teaches writing workshops in London and Bath. In 2014 he was awarded a Civil List Pension "in recognition of services to literature."
Clarke"s most recent novel is THE WATER THEATRE (published in September 2010 by Alma Booka), of which a review by Antonia Senior in THE TIMES of 28 August said "There is nothing small about this book
In 2012 THE WATER THEATRE was chosen as the inaugural e-book publication of THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS under their New York Review of Books Literature imprint.
Achievements
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His novel The Chymical Wedding, partly inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood, won the Whitbread Prize in 1989. lieutenant 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 was included among THE TIMES" Books of the Year.
