Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) is a British writer and painter.
Biography At 18 Fleetwood went to live to France, and later moved to Italy at the age of 21. He remained in Italy for the next fourteen years. Fleetwood had his first art exhibition in 1970 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He published his first novel, A Painter of Flowers, in 1971, and also designed the book's jacket.
Fleetwood won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1974 for his second novel, The Girl Who Passed for Normal.Booktrust - John Llewellyn Prize archive His 1977 novel The Order of Death formed the basis for the screenplay of the 1983 film Copkiller, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon. Fleetwood adapted the book for the film with director Roberto Faenza and Ennio De Concini.
After his return to England, he had two further solo art shows. He currently lives in London.
In 2020, being unable to reach his studio to paint due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he finished work on seven novels begun in the previous years and revised two older novels. He published these nine books himself through the Amazon platform.
Bibliography
Novels 1972 - A Painter of Flowers, Hamish Hamilton (UK)/Viking (US) 1973 - The Girl Who Passed For Normal, H.H. (UK)/Stein and Day (US) 1974 - Foreign Affairs, H.H. (UK)/Stein & Day (US) 1975 - A Conditional Sentence, H.H. (UK)/Pocket Books (US) 1976 - A Picture of Innocence, H.H. (UK)/Pocket Books (US) 1977 - The Order of Death, H.H. (UK)/Simon & Schuster (US) 1978 - An Artist and a Magician (US: Roman Magic) H.H. (UK)/Atheneum (US) 1980 - The Godmother, H.H. (UK) (Revised edition 2020) 1981 - The Redeemer, H.H. (UK)/Simon & Schust. (US) 1983 - A Young Fair God, H.H. (UK)(Revised edition 2020) 1986 - Paradise, H.H. (UK) 1987 - The Past, H.H. (UK) 1989 - The Witch, Viking (UK & US) 1991 - The Mercy Killer, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (UK) 1999 - Brothers, Serpent's Tail (UK) 2006 - The Dark Paintings, Bigfib (UK) 2013 - Our Lady of the Flies (Revised edition 2020) 2020 - The Portrait Painter 2020 - Freedom 2020 - The Vampire of Tlallpa 2020 - The Angel of Death: The Scottish Trilogy Book One 2020 - A Great Shot: The Scottish Trilogy Book Two 2020 - Complicity: The Scottish Trilogy Book Three 2020 - The Company of Finches 2022 - " Collected poems" Simple Edizioni, Macerata
Novellas 2004 - L & I, Millivres (UK) 2008 - The Other Half, Arcadia (UK)
Short stories 1979 - The Beast, H.H. (UK)/Atheneum (US) 1982 - Fictional Lives, H.H. (UK) 1984 - A Dance to the Glory of God, H.H. (UK) 1988 - Man Who Went Down with His Ship, H.H. (UK)
Travel writing 1985 - A Dangerous Place, H.H. (UK)
Poetry 2019 - "Sketches and Reflections", Zeus Publishing (Russia)
References
External links Official site