Robert Macfarlane

ROBERT MACFARLANE is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland , Landmarks , The Old Ways , The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind , as well as the book-length prose-poem, Ness . His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won many prizes around the world and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain , both...See more

ROBERT MACFARLANE is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland , Landmarks , The Old Ways , The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind , as well as the book-length prose-poem, Ness . His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won many prizes around the world and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain , both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Julie Fowlis and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood and The Moon Also Rises . In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of nonfiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. See less