![]() ![]() Philip Hoare was the winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale. In 2009, he exhibited artworks made with Angela Cockayne at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc in London. In 1982–83, he ran the record label Operation Twilight, a UK-based subsidiary of the Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule, which launched the career of the Pale Fountains. ![]() He then studied at St Mary's University, Twickenham. ![]() Hoare was born in Southampton and attended St Mary's College. Philip was my confirmation name Hoare my mother's maiden name. Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' Or: 'Do you play the xylophone?' Another reason was that when I was managing bands I used to review my own bands for the NME and Sounds as Philip Hoare. He chose the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore: He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. Philip Hoare (born Patrick Kevin Philip Moore, 1958) is an English writer, especially of history and biography. ![]()
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