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H A R T N E T T

name : hartnett / sex : male / publication : 01.01.2016

AUTHOR / PHOTOGRAPHER / JOURNALIST / EDITOR / CURATOR...

'A name. A name that was wrongly registered at birth,' writes Hartnett, Madrid, April 2014. 'That's been my curse.'

'My Irish parents, living in West London, had intended to register my name as Peter-Paul Hartnett, P-P Hartnett. My mother had a fondness for French names, such as Jean-Paul. An omission was made, no hyphen inserted upon the birth certificate. At the West London Catholic Benedictine school I attended, one priest had it in his mind that my first name was Philip. Another... Daniel. Identity was to be an issue in life, from the most basic form of identity, a name, to ethnicity, sexuality. Another aspect of my personal 'branding' was the fact that I didn't want to have the same first name as my father, Peter. So, within my family and beyond, I became known as Paul, Paul Hartnett. Add to that, the aspect of travel. As a teenager I was known to my Italian friends as Paolo, to my Spanish friends as Pablo.'

'When it came to my first steps as a photo-journalist, first book of photography, then the publication of my first novel, I selected to go with the name that had been intended for me. A name that fitted with the 'persona' adopted for a line of marketing strategy. P-P Hartnett. I liked the sexless aspect that the hyphenated initials provided, the ring of another time.

'I've stripped away Peter, stripped away Paul, blow-torched Peter-Paul and P-P. Hartnett is... register, CCTV. Surveillance. Reduced to just that. Hartnett. Hartnett will suffice for a gravestone.'

name : hartnett

sex : male

born : 15.06.1958

ethnicity : irish

info : hartnett.uk.com

List of works Novels

call me, 1996 i want to fuck you, 1997 sixteen, 1999 rock 'n' roll suicide, 2002

Short stories

mmm yeah, 1998 inclusion in over twenty anthologies

As editor

new century, new writing, 2000 the next wave, 2002 city secrets, 2004

Forthcoming

sex : male

Hartnett is widely regarded as an important innovator within the area of trangressive writing within the UK. Hartnett's writing has been described as violent, pornographic and bleak. He tackles taboos that others run from. Media controversies have flared as a result of his research approaches, his forthright and often contrarian opinions.

Hartnett wrote a novella at the age of ten, entitled Butterflies & Moths, Murdered, Mounted.

'I gained access to a Remington typewriter, Easter 1968, and refused to go back to school until the book was finished. I was off a month. Nobody could handle me. As the years went by, skinhead culture came to the rescue, '69-'72, then Glam, Bowie, the refreshing philosophy of PUNK.'

Hartnett's novel, Call Me (1996) was edited by Elaine Palmer at Pulp Books. It was a TOP SELLER at Book's Etc in London in the year of publication, on the #1 spot for two weeks. The first novel went on to be published by St Martin's Press in NYC and in Germany by Bruno Gmunder Verlag.

Call Me was followed by I Want To Fuck You (North West Arts Award), Mmm Yeah (a collection of short stories), before being signed to the literary imprint, Sceptre. Then came, Sixteen (edited by author Nicholas Blincoe), Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (edited by Wayne Brooks, BOOK OF THE WEEK, The Times) and Just One Bullet (winner of The Manchester Metropolitan University Monologues Competition, later performed by Hartnett at Urbis, Manchester).

Hartnett has given over two hundred readings of his work on an international basis, in locations such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte (North Carolina), Paris, Tokyo, Dublin, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Tunis and Gdansk.

Hartnett rarely makes a mention of his music involvements. In late 1976, he lead a punk band named The Big Shits. They played one gig, that was the intention. Self-detonation after twenty minutes. The band went on to be the core of The Transmitters, for whom Hartnett produced images. Hartnett formed a band, Missing Presumed Dead, releasing an EP and LP on Sequel Records, recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge. He went on to release a single with Persons Unknown, an EP in Japan (produced by Toshio Nakanishi) and more recently, dance-scapes produced by producer NIYI. He has produced images for a range of bands, from virtual unknowns such as Jackie, Perm Noir and The Prophetic Four, to Poly Styrene's X-Ray Spex, Felt, Primal Scream and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

'There are areas of my work that I rarely detail. Whole sides of my existence that are kept under wraps. The Internet is a cyber sewer. A dirty public toilet, if you will, with glory holes for voyeurism. I keep a distance from both self-exposure and intimacy. Trust is a fragile commodity. Access is invariably denied. People all too often select to be rats, as they attempt to nibble through boundaries. As a result, I'm... 'disconnected'.

Hartnett currently lives a nomadic lifestyle, based in Tunis (Tunisia), Gdansk (Poland) and Dover (England). name : hartnett sex : male publication : 01.01.2016 hartnett.uk.com

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