Stephan Collishaw
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Stephan Collishaw is an author from Nottinghamshire.
His first novel, The Last Girl, about an elderly and impoverished poet in Vilnius, was completed in 2001 and published in 2003. In a favourable review for The Guardian, Julie Myerson described it as “astoundingly complex for a first novel”, and also commented favourably on the reserved and un-flashy tone of Collishaw’s prose. He followed with a second novel, Amber, in 2004. Also set in Vilnius, it was inspired in part by (and contained numerous references to) Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, which had been a favorite of Collishaw’s as a young man.
Collishaw’s third novel, The Song of the Stork was published by Legend Press. The Song of the Stork is set in Lithuania during the Second World War and tells the story of the brittle, unlikely relationship between a 15-year-old girl, Yael, and the mute outcast Aleksei against the background of the Jewish partisan resistance. The novel is a love story and a coming-of-age tale. It is about a young woman finding her voice as around her the voices of her community are extinguished.
