Clive Barker is a writer, numerous bestselling author, screenwriter, director, producer, theater and film actor, artist and photographer. Many works have been staged based on his works, several famous paintings have been shot. He is the screenwriter and director of the films HellRaiser, Candyman, and Lord of Illusions.
On account of Clive Barker, dozens of published novels, a series of stories under the general title "Books of Blood" and many collections of works. In addition, Clive wrote scripts based on his own compositions, on which the films were made: Salome, Forbidden, HellRaiser, Candyman, Midnight Express, Fear, Blood Book. In some of them, he also acted as a director.
In the paintings "The Lunatic", "Forbidden", "Motorway", "Salome", Barker showed his versatile talent: he appeared in them as an actor.
Clive received several awards for his work, including the World Fantasy Award, the critics prize for HellRaisers at the Fantasporto festival, and the special prize for the movie The Night Tribe in the science fiction section.
Barker also received the title of Grandmaster, which was awarded to him by the Association of Horror Writers.
The writer has been nominated many times for the World Fantasy Award in the sections "Best Novel", "Best Novel", "Best Compilation" and the Bram Stoker Award for the novel "Damned Game".
early years
Clive was born in England in the fall of 1952. His parents were not related to art. My father served in a small organization and was engaged in personnel matters, and my mother worked in the educational system.
Back in school years, the boy began to write his first works and participate in the work of the school publishing house. After receiving secondary education, Clive went to university and entered the faculty of English literature and philosophy.
Creative biography
At the age of twenty, Barker creates with his friends his own small musical theater, where they stage performances, imitating the famous French horror theater Grand Guignol. Barker also became interested in cinema and made his first short films, where all the roles were played by his friends.
A few years later, Clive goes to London, where he begins to engage not only in writing, but also in painting. Soon, a young artist and writer receives an order from the famous musical group The Who to create a cover for their new album.
The work of Barker interested Ramsey Campbell. And soon he introduces the talented young man to the famous editor and literary critic D. Winter. And two years later, Clive publishes his first collection from the Blood Books series. Although his works did not become popular in England, they were fully appreciated in America. A year later, Barker receives his first World Fantasy Award. Soon, his new novel, The Cursed Game, was released.
A year later, Clive writes the script for the film "Underworld", but the resulting film did not satisfy him, because Barker decides to take up directing on his own. In 1987, he directed the movie HellRaiser in his own script, which later became one of the best horror films.
Two years later, Barker moved to the United States, began work on a new book, The Apparition of Secrets, and continued to direct. Soon the movie, shot based on the book "Tribe of Darkness", is released. The film was a great success with the audience, became the basis for creating a series of comics and a computer game.
Having earned enough money, Barker acquires one of the mansions in London and begins to write the next book, Imagika, which has become one of his favorite works.
All the works of Barker are created in the genre of horror. He himself more than once explained this by the fact that from a young age he was always interested in mysticism and otherworldly phenomena. Literary critics call Clive one of the best authors working in the genre of horror and fantasy.
