Colin Wilson
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Colin Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 and began his working career in 1956. His official website was titled 'Wilson World – Let's talk about art and literature.' He wrote that the Outsider may be an artist, but that the artist is not necessarily an Outsider, and that what characterises the Outsider involves a sense of strangeness or unreality. Wilson died on 5 December 2013.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 June 1931
- Died
- 5 December 2013
- Works
- 397
Top works
- Colin Wilson's "Lulu" '
- ما بعد اللامنتمي
- القفص الزجاجي
- La cage de verre
- الشعر والصوفية
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 80
- Total plays
- 718
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,720x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,143x
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,630x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
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Quotes
- “I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.”
- “The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol — brighter than my students at university.”
- “The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, yet they keep up a pretense, to themselves, to others; their respectability, their philosophy, their religion, are all attempts to gloss over, to make civilized and rational something that is savage, unorganized, irrational. He is an Outsider because he stands for truth.”
- “There certainly is self division. The man who watches a woman undressing has the red eyes of an ape; yet the man who sees two young lovers, really alone for the first time, who brings out all the pathos, the tenderness and uncertainty when he tells about it, is no brute; he is very much human. And the ape and the man exist in one body; and when the ape's desires are about to be fulfilled, he disappears and is succeeded by the man, who is disgusted with the ape's appetite.”
- “The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.”
- “What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Colin Henry Wilson , ( 1931-06-26 ) 26 June 1931, Leicester , Leicestershire, England
- Died
- 5 December 2013 (2013-12-05) (aged 82), St Austell , Cornwall, England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- British
- Period
- Active: 1956–2013, 20th century
- Genre
- Non-fiction Fiction Paranormal Existentialism Positive psychology
- Literary movement
- Angry young men
- Notable works
- The Outsider The Occult: A History
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Official website
Wilson World – Let’s talk about art and literature
colinwilsonworld.co.uk →Wilson World is one of the leading online blogs when it comes to the subjects of art and literature. This is a reference and a resource platform for artists and aficionados in art and literature. We recognize that this is a very vibrant industry yet there aren’t many platforms in the online space where art lovers can access informative and insightful content when it comes to matters of art. This is the main motivation behind the establishment of Wilson World. It doesn’t matter whether you are just new to art and literature or whether you have more experience in this field this is a platform which is full of insightful information for everyone in this space.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Leicester
- Place of death
- St Austell
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- occultism
- Official website
- www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk
- Image
- Colin Wilson.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- date of death
- 2013-12-05
- date of birth
- 1931-06-26
- lifestyle
- mysticism
- name in native language
- Colin Henry Wilson
- influenced by
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- birth name
- Colin Henry Wilson
- place of burial
- Cornwall
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- Commons category
- Colin Wilson (writer)
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".
Early life
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