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Nicholas Monsarrat

(1910–1979) Writer United Kingdom

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Nicholas Monsarrat was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for The cruel sea.

Quick Facts About Nicholas Monsarrat

Born: March 22, 1910
Died: August 8, 1979
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The cruel sea

About Nicholas Monsarrat

Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–1945), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Heinemann Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Quotes by Nicholas Monsarrat

“Probably I even remembered, subconsciously, having “Limey bastard!” shouted at me on a street-car … Yes, a certain bias might have crept…

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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

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Boat

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“It wasn’t that they were all pretty, but they were all attractive; they’d obviously taken endless trouble over their appearance, playing up…

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The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

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Feathers

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“...blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners—the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at…

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“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire…

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Sailing

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