Edward Wilson-Lee

Edward Wilson-Lee is an English literature academic at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and a specialist in the literature and the history of the book in the early modern period.[1]

Early life

Wilson-Lee is the son of wildlife conservationists, and was born in the same Midwest farming town as his father.[2] He studied English at University College London, and completed a doctorate at Oxford and Cambridge.[3]

Personal life

He is married, with two sons, and lives in the Cambridge area.[2]

Selected publications

• Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (2014). Cambridge University Press. (Edited with José María Pérez Fernández)
• Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-living Poet (2016). William Collins.[4][5][6]
• The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (2018). William Collins.[7][8][9]
• A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History (2022). William Collins.

Awards and honors

Shakespeare in Swahililand became a finalist of William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for non-fiction in 2018.[10]

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2019.[11][12]

Wilson-Lee was named a Guggenheim Fellow in the category of General Nonfiction in 2022.[13]

See also

• Libro de los Epítomes

References

1. "College Fellows and Staff - Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University". www.sid.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
2. "edward-wilson-lee - BIO". edward-wilson-lee. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
3. "Macmillan". US Macmillan.
4. Kerr, Michael (18 April 2016). "Why Shakespeare is the perfect companion for exploring Africa". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
5. "Edward Wilson-Lee, Shakespeare in Swahililand, book review". The Independent. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
6. efrench (3 October 2017). "Shakespeare in Swahililand". Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
7. Dadson, Trevor J. (4 July 2018). "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books. Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library". Hispanic Research Journal. 19 (4): 430–432. doi:10.1080/14682737.2018.1492676.
8. Schama, Simon (8 June 2018). "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee — Spanish acquisition". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
9. "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library, by Edward Wilson-Lee". Times Higher Education (THE). 5 July 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
10. Adventures with the Ever-living Poet (description) Stanford University Libraries
11. Mair, George. "Akala's race polemic nominated for James Tait Black literary prize". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
12. "Edward Wilson-Lee wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2019". English PEN. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
13. "Edward Wilson-Lee". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

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