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Clive Barker
Birth at
5 October 1952
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Clive Barker is a British science fiction writer, director and screenwriter. He was born on 5 October 1952 in the United Kingdom, near Penny Lane, Liverpool. He began to become interested in writing at school, so after graduation, the future writer enters the Faculty of English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, but is disappointed and at the age of 21 he moves to London, where he creates a theater studio to implement his own plays. In his works, he begins to show such elements
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Clive Barker is a British science fiction writer, director and screenwriter. He was born on 5 October 1952 in the United Kingdom, near Penny Lane, Liverpool. He began to become interested in writing at school, so after graduation, the future writer enters the Faculty of English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, but is disappointed and at the age of 21 he moves to London, where he creates a theater studio to implement his own plays. In his works, he begins to show such elements that will later become his own corporate style - a combination of fiction, horror and eroticism. 1984 – the debut collection of stories “Book of Blood” is published, which went almost unnoticed in the writer’s homeland, but was enthusiastically welcomed in America.
With his debut novel The Cursed Game, the writer causes a hurricane of delights and gains incredible popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. Barker is considered the most promising of the horror writers, and Stephen King calls him his successor.
1985 - The script for the film "Transmutations", which was also shown under the title "Underworld". 1991 – Barker shows his creative talents in the genre of fantasy, the most important of which is the epic novel “Imagika”.
In addition to studying literature, Clive is seriously engaged in painting and sculpture. His solo exhibition of graphics, exhibited in the New York gallery Bess Culter, was a resounding success. Now he continues to work on the epic “Abarat” that has already managed to be found around the world.
The author plans to write a five-volume book about the adventures of the girl Candy Kvokenbush. The Walt Disney Company has allocated an $8 million advance for the book.
In Russia, thanks to the publishing house Eksmo, the first volume of Abarat was released. The pages of the book are replete with colorful drawings of Clive Barker himself.
He currently lives and works in California.