Roger Hutchinson (writer)
Roger Hutchinson (born 1949)[citation needed] is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born at Farnworth, near Bolton, in Lancashire,[citation needed] but lives on Raasay, off the east coast of Skye.
Education[edit]
Hutchinson attended Bretton Hall College in Leeds to study English.[1]
Career[edit]
In the late 1960s, around the time he studied English at Bretton Hall College, he founded and edited 'Sad Traffic', published from a small office in Barnsley, which ran for five issues before morphing into Yorkshire's alternative newspaper, Styng (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip).[1][2]
He then moved to London and edited OZ, International Times and the magazine Time Out.[1][2][3]
In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the West Highland Free Press.[1] Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay.[1]
He has also served as editor of the Stornoway Gazette.[citation needed]
Books[edit]
As of 2017, Hutchinson has written 15 non-fiction books.[2]
Polly, The True Story Behind Whisky Galore (1990) was about the SS Politician, the ship which was wrecked on the Outer Hebrides with a cargo of whisky which inspired the book and film Whisky Galore.[4]
Hutchinson wrote The Real Story of England's 1966 World Cup Triumph ...it is now! in 1995.[5] This book follows the career of Sir Alf Ramsey from his early days in Dagenham through to the 1966 victory.
His book The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme (2003), was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.[6]
Calum's Road (2006), about Raasay crofter Calum MacLeod who hand-built a road to his croft, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.[1][7]
In 2012 Hutchinson published The Silent Weaver, the story of the Uist-raised crofter Angus MacPhee who suffered a schizophrenic breakdown during World War II and subsequently spent 50 years in Craig Dunain Hospital near Inverness where he developed skill in weaving grass taken from the hospital grounds.[8]
As of 2018, Hutchinson's most recent book is The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The story of Britain through its Census, since 1801 (2017).[9]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Two men, one road and a most unusual journey". The Herald. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ a b c "Roger Hutchinson". Your Family History. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018. [dead link]
- ^ Campbell, Duncan (12 February 2001). "'I've had enough of making stuff up'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ "Whisky Galore Translates Well". Press and Journal (Aberdeen). 16 April 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ Hutchinson, Roger (1995). The Real Story of England's 1966 World Cup Triumph ...it is now!. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 1-85158-751-9.
- ^ "Saltire picks Scottish shortlists". The Bookseller. 8 November 2004. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ Terris, Adam (16 April 2014). "Scottish fact of the week: Calum's Road". The Scotsman. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ "Spaekalation". The Shetland Times. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ Moss, Stephen (17 February 2017). "The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: The Story of Britain Through Its Census – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
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