Nicolas Tredell

Nicolas Tredell (born Leicester 1950) grew up in West Ewell, Surrey and Groby (pron. Grooby), Leicestershire. He now lives in Seaford, East Sussex. He is a writer whose tally of publications includes 26 books and over 500 essays, articles, interviews, reviews and tales in peer-reviewed journals, leading literary magazines, and UK national newspapers. He was a contributing editor of the journal "PN Review" from 1983-9, and a judge of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1994 and the English and Media Centre Close Reading Competitions in 2016 and 2024. From 1999 to 2021, he was Consultant Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Essential Criticism series, which runs to nearly 90 volumes. He is a frequent speaker, in person and online, at a wide variety of venues, including Godolphin and Latymer School, Reading School, King Edward IV School Stratford-upon-Avon, Wycombe Abbey School, the University of Bucharest, the University of Jadavpur, the University of Lisbon, the University of Oradea and the University of Oxford. He and his wife Angela are the co-founders and co-directors of Tredellian Publishing, which brings out high-quality fiction and nonfiction pamphlets.