William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
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Submitted by visitors to this websitePosted by Zoe
March 1st 2012When will the firesong trilogy be made into a film? Also I would love to audition for Kestrel in the last two books.
William Nicholson responded:
Nothing doing for now, alas.
Posted by Chikako Nakanishi
March 1st 2012Dear Mr. Nicholson, I’m writing in regard to your novel, The Wind Singer, which I greatly enjoyed. My name is Chikako Nakanishi. I’m a Master’s student of Applied Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. Now I’m working on my summer project for the course. In the project, I’ll translate4000-5000words of an English text, which has not been translated previously into Japanese, and then write a commentary (1500words) for my translation. For my future as a literary translator, I’d really like to translate your novel, The Wind Singer. As far as I have been able to find, the book has not been translated into Japanese. Could you please confirm that this is the case? If it has not yet been translated into Japanese, I would like to seek permission to do so. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Chikako Nakanishi marinmario724@gmail.com
William Nicholson responded:
I'm afraid The Wind Singer has been translated and published in Japan - by Tokuma Shoten, I believe.
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The Golden Hour
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The stories of these and other characters entwine in a continuous dance over seven golden days of high summer. It is a human kaleidoscope that perfectly captures how familiar yet strange, passionate yet mundane, painful yet comic our everyday lives can be.
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The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
Now available in paperback‘You are happily married. Suddenly your long-lost lover calls. Would you be tempted?’
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