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Craig Higginson

    Craig Higginson je mezinárodně uznávaný spisovatel, jehož díla zkoumají hlubiny lidské psychiky a složitosti mezilidských vztahů. Jeho hry, často oceňované pro svou odvážnou perspektivu a literární hloubku, se zaměřují na téma identity, paměti a hledání smyslu v dnešním světě. Higginsonův prozaický styl je charakterizován pronikavou introspekcí a poetickým jazykem, který čtenáře vtahuje do víru emocí. Prostřednictvím svých děl nabízí pronikavý pohled na společenské výzvy a univerzální lidské zkušenosti, čímž si získal renomé jako jeden z nejvýznamnějších současných hlasů v literatuře.

    The Landscape Painter
    Embodied Laughter and The Gooseberry
    Little Foot
    The Dream House
    The Girl in the Yellow Dress
    Dream of the Dog
    • Nominated for four Naledi Awards (South Africa's equivalent of the Olivier Awards) including Best New South African Play.

      Dream of the Dog
    • The Dream House

      • 258 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      The narrative unfolds in a valley where a farmhouse is replicated multiple times, each version slightly different. Amidst this eerie setting, a woman in a wheelchair sifts through memories while her husband explores the remnants of past life. Themes of longing and mortality emerge through the dreams of a young woman labeled as 'the barren one' and the introspection of an aging headmaster. The arrival of a mysterious car at the driveway adds tension, hinting at unresolved stories and connections within this haunting landscape.

      The Dream House
    • Little Foot

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení

      Part realism, part nightmare, acclaimed South African playwright Craig Higginson's play takes us on an unforgettable journey into our unconscious ancestral memory.

      Little Foot
    • The Landscape Painter

      • 274 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      It’s winter in London, 1947. When Arthur Bailey, a solitary landscape painter, catches sight of a young woman, Felicity, who is moving into the neighbouring bed-sit, he’s stirred to recall in haunting detail events that have been kept hidden for fifty years.The Landscape Painter is a double tale of obsession, betrayed trust and irrepressible hope. As a young and brilliant artist, Arthur travelled to South Africa in the late 1890s to pursue his best friend’s sister, the beautiful and enigmatic Carwyn Hamilton. His subsequent revelations about Carwyn were to blight his life and torment him for decades afterwards.From the gold-crazed streets of early Johannesburg and the epic battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, to the austerity of post-War Britain, The Landscape Painter is a spectacular historical novel filled with wit and insight, written in Higginson’s characteristically sinuous, lyrical prose.

      The Landscape Painter