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Bio: Paul David Adkin is a British born writer (Long Eaton, 1958) with a degree in Drama and English (Rusden State College). He writes novels, plays, poetry, short stories, essays and screenplays. He has also written educational materials for books in Spain (Santillana) and Australia (Addison-Wesley Longman).
He grew up in Australia and, after graduating in 1979, worked as a playwright, director and actor. In the following three years four of his plays were produced: “Afterbirth”, “The Jack and Jill Story”, “The Rabid Cow Murders” and “Schadenfreude”. Of these “The Jack and Jill Story” was the most successful. It has been published (Australian Nouveau Theatre, 1981) and performed in three countries. In 1982 he was a writer-in-residence at the Anthill Theatre in Melbourne, but in 1983 he turned down a post of writer-in-residence at La Boite in Brisbane in order to accept an opportunity to live and work in Japan as a teacher. After spending a year in Japan he travelled Europe then spent two years in London working as a hotel manager.
Since 1986 he has been living in Madrid, where he has been writing constantly. One of his short stories, “The Benevolent Farmer”, won a competition in the European newspaper (July,1995). Several other stories have been translated and published in Spain and he has developed a bi-lingual literature site running on the Internet called Galimatias (http://www.cuatrogrados.com/galimatias ).
Over the last ten years he has been concentrating on the novel form. At the moment he has three novels one of which “Purgatory” is ready to be published. Apart from this he has a comic screenplay, written in conjunction with Simon McSweeney, called “The Caterers”. He is also looking for companies to do some finished but still unperformed plays “The Clown”, “Hamlet 2000” and “Dr. Kronos”.
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