Robert Twigger
| Robert Twigger | |
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| Born | born 30 October 1962 (age 53) Solihull,Britain |
| Occupation | author |
| Nationality | British |
| Subject | Travel, exploration, adventure, cross-cultural studies |
| Children | 2 |
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Robert Twigger (born 30 October 1962) is a British author. He travels widely and divides his time between the UK and Egypt.
Twigger was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. He first began to study engineering, but after six weeks switched to politics and philosophy. He won the Newdigate Prize for poetry – previous winners include Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin. He also staged a film festival for student films, as well as directing two films himself.
Following university, he worked in the publicity department of a record company and taught English and studied martial arts in Japan for three years. After that he travelled widely in remote places for a number of years.
Twigger has written fiction and non-fiction books, as well as articles for newspapers and magazines such as the Daily Telegraph, "Sunday Times", "Lonely Planet Magazine","Maxim, "Financial Times" and Esquire.
Twigger has also published several poetry collections, including one in 2003 with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.
In 1997 Twigger's expedition to North Borneo and Kalimantan discovered a line of Menhirs stretching across a vast stretch of jungle never before recorded.
Twigger's failed attempt to capture a record-breaking snake in Indonesia in 1997 was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary, entitled Big Snake along with Twigger's book on the expedition. In the documentary, Twigger is criticised by his translator for employing indigenous people to do the majority of the work whilst omitting to inform many of them about the $50,000 prize he was seeking for himself.
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