![]() ![]() It and the subsequent ‘mythago’ novels (including Lavondyss, which won the BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1988) cemented his reputation as the definitive portrayer of the wild wood. It was described by Michael Moorcock as “the outstanding fantasy book of the 80s”. However, it is with fantasy that he is most closely associated.ġ984 saw the publication of Mythago Wood, winner of the BSFA and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel, and widely regarded as one of the key texts of modern fantasy. His first published story appeared in New Worlds magazine in 1968 and for the early part of his career he wrote science fiction, such as Eye Among the Blind and Where Times Winds Blow. ![]() Holdstock received an MSc in Medical Zoology and spent several years in the early 1970s in medical research, before becoming a full-time writer in 1976. In later years, he lived in London but escaped to the forest whenever possible. ![]() ![]() Robert Holdstock was born in a remote corner of Kent in 1948, sharing his childhood years between the bleak Romney Marsh and the dense woodlands of the Kentish heartlands. ![]()
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