The Vision of Elena Silves

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born March 3, 1957, in Worcester, England) is a British novelist and biographer whose works include the award-winning novels The Vision of Elena Silves (Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards, 1989) and The Dancer Upstairs (American Library Association's Best Novel, 1995; adapted into film), acclaimed biographies like Bruce Chatwin (1999) and Ian Fleming: The Complete Man (CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, 2024), and historical narratives such as Six Minutes in May (2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999) and has been longlisted twice for the Booker Prize.