Nick Coleman (born 1960) is a British writer.
Born in
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated ''Bucks'') is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshir ...
in 1960, Coleman grew up in
Cambridgeshire
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and has lived in London since 1982. He is a former music editor of
''Time Out'' and an arts and music journalist for ''
The Independent
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'' and ''
The Independent on Sunday''. In 2010 he wrote ''The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss'', about coming to terms with his own experience five years earlier of
hearing loss
Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear. Hearing loss may be present at birth or acquired at any time afterwards. Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears. In children, hearing problems can affect the ability to acquire spo ...
.,
published in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2012.
His other books are the novel, ''Pillow Man'' (2015),
which was a runner-up for the
McKitterick Prize, and ''Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life'' (2018), an exploration of what it means to listen to, and be compelled by, singing.
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1960 births
Living people
21st-century English male writers
21st-century British non-fiction writers
British deaf people
English male non-fiction writers
Hearing loss
The Independent people
Writers from Buckinghamshire
People from Cambridgeshire