Autor: Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and environmental activist whose eleven books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. His book Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. With the photographer David Tipling he published Birds and People in 2013, a massive survey described by the Times Literary Supplement as „a major literary event as well as an ornithological one”. Our Place: Can We Save Britain”s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late?, was described by the Sunday Times as „impassioned, expert and always beautifully written… a sobering and magnificent work”. His most recent book, A Claxton Diary, won the East Anglia Book Award in 2019.