Robert Nye

Robert Nye FRSL (15 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an English poet and author. His bestselling novel Falstaff, published in 1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in The Times) as "one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade", and went on to win both The Hawthornden Prize and Guardian Fiction Prize. The novel was also included in Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939.

Early life Robert Nye was born in London in 1939. His father was a civil servant, his mother a farmer's daughter. He attended Southend High School for Boys and had published his first poem, "Kingfisher", in the London Magazine (September 1955; Volume 2, Number 9) by the age of sixteen. ) (1968) Wishing Gold (1970) Poor Pumpkin (1971) - Illustrated by Derek Collard Once Upon Three Times (1978) The Bird of the Golden Land (1980) Harry Pay the Pirate (1981) Lord Fox and Other Spine-Chilling Tales (1997)

Plays Sawney Bean [with Bill Watson] (1970) The Seven Deadly Sins, A Mask (1974) Penthesilea, Fugue, and Sisters (1976)

Editions A Choice of Sir Walter Ralegh's Verse (1972) William Barnes, Selected Poems (1973) A Choice of Swinburne's Verse (1973) The Faber Book of Sonnets (1976) The English Sermon 1750-1850 (1976) PEN New Poetry 1 (1986) First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding (1992) A Selection of the Poems of Laura Riding (1994) Some Poems by Ernest Dowson (2006) Some Poems by Thomas Chatterton (2008) Some Poems by Clere Parsons (2008) The Liquid Rhinoceros and Other Uncollected Poems by Martin Seymour-Smith (2009) Some Poems by James Reeves (2009)