Lewis Crofts

Lewis Charles Crofts, (born in Blackburn, United Kingdom on 5 November 1977), is an English author and journalist. Crofts is currently a correspondent for MLex Market Intelligence, a news agency focusing on competition law and regulatory risk.[1] He is currently editor-in-chief of MLex.[2]

Early life and education

He studied Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. He has lived in Hanover (Germany), France, Prague (Czech Republic) and Brussels (Belgium), working as a journalist and translator.[3]

Career

His first book, The Pornographer of Vienna, is a novel based on the life of Austrian painter Egon Schiele who was famous for his sexually explicit depictions of the Viennese underworld.[4] It was published in June 2007 by Old Street Publishing in the UK and in July 2008 in North America.

The novel was published in Italy in September 2008 by Marco Tropea under the title Il pornografo di Vienna. Other fiction writing has appeared in the Prague Revue, Notes from the Underground and Ether Magazine. In an interview with 3:AM Magazine, he confirmed work on a second novel.[5]

Bibliography
  • The Pornographer of Vienna
  • The Best Day of My Life (story in anthology, ed. Giles Vickers-Jones)
  • Madwoman on a Pilgrimage by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (foreword by L.Crofts, trans. A.Piper)
  • And So They Came (story in anthology The Return of Kral Majales, ed. Louis Armand)

Articles

Reviews

References
  1. http://info.mlex.com/team/editorial%5B%5D
  2. "Lewis Crofts on Brexit, Brussels, and finding a niche in the media market". The Oxford Student. 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  3. "Home". lewiscrofts.com.
  4. http://www.tiborjones.com/author_lewis_crofts.html%5B%5D
  5. "Fatal passions: An interview with Lewis Crofts". 15 September 2008.
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