Robinson, Andrew

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ROBINSON, Andrew

ROBINSON, Andrew. British, b. 1957. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Archaeology/Antiquities, Art/Art history, Earth sciences, Film, Language/ Linguistics, Literary criticism and history, Biography. Career: Worked for Macmillan Publishers, 1979-82, and Granada Television, 1983-89; freelance writer, 1990-94; Times Higher Education Supplement, London, England, literary editor, 1994-. Publications: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, 1989, 2nd ed., 2003; The Art of Rabindranath Tagore, 1989; (with S. Berthon) The Shape of the World: The Mapping and Discovery of the Earth, 1990; Earths- hock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornados, and Other Forces of Nature, 1993, in U.K. as Earthshock: Climate, Complexity, and the Forces of Nature, rev. ed., 2002; (with K. Dutta) Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad- Minded Man, 1995; The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms, 1995; Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, 2002; The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris, 2002. EDITOR (with K. Dutta): (and trans) Noon in Calcutta: Short Stories from Bengal, 1992; Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore, 1997; Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology, 1997. Address: 13 Lonsdale Sq, London N1 1EN, England. Online address: [email protected]

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