Colin Duriez (born 19 July 1947) is an English writer on fantasy , especially that of the Inklings literary group centred around the Christian authors C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien .
7-522: Duriez is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Colin Duriez (born 1947), English writer Marcel Duriez (1940–2023), French hurdler Odette Duriez (born 1948), French politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Duriez . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
14-860: A small publisher, IVP , as a commissioning editor . He took various teaching and editing jobs, and in 2002 he started his own business in Keswick, Cumbria , InWriting, devoted to writing, editorial services, and book acquisition for publishers. Duriez won the Clyde S. Kilby Award in 1994 for his research on the Inklings , the literary group that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis . He has been described as "the most useful scholar writing on Lewis today." He has published many books on Christian literary figures, and has spoken to literary, academic and professional groups. His television documentaries include A Quest for Meaning – Myth, Imagination & Faith in
21-652: The Literature of J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis . He lives in Wallingford, Oxfordshire . Benjamin C. Parker, reviewing Duriez's Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien, and the Shadow of Evil , writes that the strengths of the book include its thorough connection of Lewis's writings to earlier literature on the subject, and his setting of his thesis about the Inklings in terms of 21st century events and literature. Parker finds
28-409: The analysis of issues related to Christianity "profound", and states that the book is accessible both to academics and the general public, with the more scholarly details relegated to endnotes. Courtney Petrucci, reviewing The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien, and Their Circle , writes that the book's "great strength" is "its effective use of other Inklings' writings to give the reader a sense for what
35-469: The biography Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship and The Inklings Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and Their Friends , writes that these are "excellent resources" for readers new to Tolkien and Lewis, and useful too to "devoted reader[s]" of their "imaginative and provocative writings". The biography
42-425: The group was like and how its most prominent members [Lewis, Tolkien, Owen Barfield , and Charles Williams ] were understood" by the less-famous members. Petrucci finds the book remarkable in succeeding in balancing the coverage, offering fresh "insights and perspectives", and bringing out the complicated ideas that the Inklings discussed while telling the basic story of the group. John E. McKinley, in his review of
49-592: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duriez&oldid=1137892533 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Colin Duriez Colin Duriez was born in Derbyshire on 19 July 1947. He moved to Leicester in 1983 to work with
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