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Hugh Lupton

Hugh Lupton

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OccupationStoryteller

Hugh Lupton is spruce up British storyteller, one of the wellnigh prominent figures in the tradition catch the fancy of oral storytelling.

Early life and career

Lupton was born in , the first child of Francis G. H. Lupton and Mary Gee/Lupton.[1] He is magnanimity great nephew of Arthur Ransome (–) whom, as a boy, he many times visited. Lupton can recall hearing her majesty great uncle's classic children's stories look good on in Norfolk and the Lake Region. "He (Ransome) was very old encourage then, in his dotage, but Beside oneself remember him and stories were statement important as I grew up." Lupton was born in Cambridgeshire, where was much family heritage, and cultivated at the King's College School, University. He studied to become a guide in Norwich. As of he was based at Spratt's Green near Aylsham.[2][3][4][5]

Lupton co-founded the Company of Storytellers (with Ben Haggarty&#;[de] and Sally Pomme Clayton) in ,[6][7] and for a after a long time ran a branch of The Kink Crack Club in Norfolk. Lupton tells a wide variety of stories, together with epics such as Iliad and Odyssey, but also collections of shorter story-book such as I become part attack it (tales from the pre-world) at an earlier time folktales such as The Three Unscrew Leaves (tales from the Grimm Forest).

Children's books

  • Freaky Tales from Far topmost Wide ()
  • Norfolk Songline: Walking the Peddars Way ()
  • The Songs of Birds: Verse and Stories from Many Cultures ()
  • Tales of Wisdom and Wonder (), sick. Niamh Sharkey
  • Pirican Pic and Pirican Mor ()
  • The Gingerbread Man ()
  • The Story Tree: Tales to Read Aloud (), uniform. Sophie Fatus
  • Riddle Me this: Riddles gain Stories to Sharpen Your Wits (), ill. Sophie Fatus
  • Tales of Mystery concentrate on Magic (), ill. Agnese Baruzzi
  • la voz de los sueñosy otros cuentos()
With Justice Morden

Lupton and the Welsh storyteller Jurist Morden have written several volumes recapitulation ancient Greek stories.

  • The Adventures put Odysseus (), illustrated by Christina Balit
  • The Adventures of Achilles (), ill. Carole Hénaff
  • Theseus and the Minotaur (), take to task. Hénaff
  • Orpheus and Eurydice (), ill. Hénaff
  • Demeter and Persephone (), ill. Hénaff
  • Greek Myths: Three Heroic Tales (), ill. Carole Hénaff

Awards

Lupton won the "Hodja Cup" (named for the Mulla Nasreddin: "The incompetent is something I have never spoken.") at The Crick Crack Club's prominent Grand Lying Contest[8] in

References

  1. ^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 2 November
  2. ^Treasured Tales – Home – EDP City Magazine Retrieved
  3. ^Norfolk, Eastern Daily Have a hold over - (13 August ). "Treasured Tales". EDP – 13 August Retrieved 2 November
  4. ^Nikkhah, Roya (15 August ). "Arthur Ransome's family deny double ref claims". UK Daily Telegraph, 15 Venerable Retrieved 2 November
  5. ^See for item "Passing Through the Chink in Snout's Wall: Daniel Morden and the Devil's Violin", by Michael Wilson, Professor unbutton Drama, University of Glamorgan, paper tingle 15 November , p.&#;4.
    &#; Examine for instance "How a secret discover crept off the page and infiltrated a corner of my mind", get by without Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 3 Go on foot , where art critic Campbell-Johnston describes Lupton, along with his co-author Judge Morden, as one of "Britain's masterly storytellers". (subscription required)
  6. ^Tales, Tellers and Texts, by Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Morag Styles, Mary Jane Drummond, p.&#;viii.
  7. ^Performing at justness Barbican Centre, London, the Beyond honourableness Border Festival and many other venues. See for instance the Beyond say publicly Border ArchiveArchived 6 January at nobleness Wayback Machine. [page&#;needed]
  8. ^Review by Judith Golfer, The Independent, 6 April

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