For the Australian politician, see Ian Sinclair Rt Hon Ian Sinclair The Right Honourable Ian McCahon Sinclair (born 10 June 1929), Australian politician, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a suburban accountant. ...

Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry. ...

Sinclair was born on June 11, 1943. His education includes studies at Trinity College (Dublin), Courtauld Institute of Art, and London School of Film Technique (now London Film School). June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the History of art. ...

Much of his early work was poetry, followed by mostly fiction, then non-fiction. Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Non-fiction is a truthful account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts. ...

One of his earliest works is Back Garden Poems, published in 1970. He is best known for the novel Downriver published in 1991 which won the James Tait Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Prize. It envisages the UK under the rule of the Widow, a grotesque version of Margaret Thatcher as viewed by her harshest critics who supposedly established a one party state in a fifth term. One of his most recent works is the non-fiction London Orbital; the hard cover edition was published in 2002, along with a documentary film of the same name and subject (the paperback version came out in 2003). It describes the series of trips he took, on foot, following the M25, London's outer-ring motorway. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born 13 October 1925) is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the only woman as of 2005 to serve in that position. ... Non-fiction is a truthful account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

Written works

• Back Garden Poems - poetry (1970)
• The Kodak Mantra Diaries: Allan Ginsberg in London- documentary (1971)
• Muscat's Wurm - poetry (1972)
• The Birth Rug - poetry (1973)
• Lud Heat - poetry, 1975
• Suicide Bridge - poetry, 1979
• Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970-1987 - poetry 1987
• White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings - fiction, 1987
• Downriver - novel, 1991
• Jack Elam's Other Eye - poetry
• Radon Daughters - novel, 1994
• The Ebbing of the Kraft - poetry, 1997
• Lights out for the Territory - documentary, 1997
• Slow Chocolate Autopsy - fiction, 1997
• Crash - essay, 1999
• Liquid City - non-fiction, 1999 (with Marc Atkins)
• Rodinsky's Room - non-fiction, 1999 (with Rachel Lichtenstein)
• Sorry Meniscus - essay, 1999
• Landor's Tower - novel, 2001
• London Orbital (book) - non-fiction, 2002
• Dining on Stones - novel, 2004

Downriver is the unofficial name for suburbs of Detroit, Michigan that are located to the south of the city – down the (Detroit) River. ...

External links

• Iain Sinclair page from IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801633/)
• Complete review page (http://www.complete-review.com/authors/sinclairi.htm)
• Literary Encycopedia page on Iain Sinclair (http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4084)
• Fortean Times interview (http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/147_iainsinclair.shtml)