Mark Cocker
'It takes a whole universe to make the one small black bird'
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'It takes a whole universe to make the one small black bird'
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MARK COCKER is an author of creative non-fiction, as well as a naturalist and environmental tutor. He writes and broadcasts on nature and wildlife in a variety of national media. In 2018 he completed 30 years as a country diarist for The Guardian and Guardian Weekly and has now written well over 1,000 articles for both papers. His 12 books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. They include Our Place (Cape, 2018), on the fate of British nature in the twentieth century, which was shortlisted for the Thwaites Wainwright and the Richard Jefferies Prizes. His longest and most arduous project, Birds and People (Cape, 2013), was published to international acclaim and was a collaboration with the photographer David Tipling. Between them his last four works have been shortlisted for nine awards. Crow Country won the New Angle Prize in 2009 and A Claxton Diary won the East Anglia Book Award in 2019. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of East Anglia, where he has recently placed his archive. He has travelled in more than 50 countries and in 1999 was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study birds in magico-medicinal practices in Benin and Cameroon. He divides his time between Derbyshire and Norfolk and is married to the arts professional Mary Muir, from whom he gets many of his best ideas!
Mark Cocker