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Boyd Tonkin

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  • Writer, Journalist and Literary Critic, Freelance
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Chair @TheOrwellPrize fiction 2023; Benson Medallist @RSLiterature; words @FTLifeArts @TheEconomist @WSJ @TheTLS; '100 Best Novels in Translation' @Galileobooks
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This is Constable’s England

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By Boyd Tonkin 
| Prospect Magazine
At Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, two of the paintings that meant most to John Constable hang (as intended) side by side. Painted in the late summer of 1815, they depict the flower and kitchen gardens of the Constable family home in East Bergholt, seen from an upper window.
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The forgotten Scots who gave Kafka his voice

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By Boyd Tonkin 
| Engelsberg Ideas
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century, Maïa Hruska, translated by Sam Taylor, William Collins, £16.99 In 1995, a zanily inventive Scottish film won the Oscar for best live-action short. Two decades before his stint as the 12th incarnation of Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi wrote and directed Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
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La Clemenza di Tito, The Grange Festival review - the quality of mercy

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By Boyd Tonkin 
| The Arts Desk
“Never have I had such a day,” sings the baffled Emperor Tito as he wearily forgives all and sundry for their conspiracies, treacheries, deceits, attempted murders – and, by the way, for trashing the Capitol long before Trumpian thugs had the same idea. At which point the Grange Festival audience, forgivably, laughs.
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