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Under the Clock. The life story of Christopher Nolan. Translated by Garðar Baldvinsson, who also wrote the foreword.
Christopher Nolan was born on September 6, 1966, in Ireland. During birth, he suffered from a lack of oxygen, which caused severe brain damage. It turned out that he could neither speak nor control his movements other than his eye movements.
When he was 11 years old, he broke the shackles of silence after having been "locked in the coffin of his own body for years". Then, with the help of his teacher and a new drug that helped him relax his neck muscles, he managed to control his head tilts well enough to be able to press a typewriter key with a pin attached to his forehead. This required tremendous effort and concentration, but in addition, someone had to stand behind him and support his chin. His mother took on this role. When he thus got the "talk" his rare poetic abilities emerged. The boy turned out to have been composing poems since he was 3 years old and had kept them in his mind.
His first book, The Dam of Dreams, was published when he was 15. Christopher says he wrote his autobiography to "describe how my brain-damaged life is as normal to me as the lives of my healthy friends are to them." For the book, Christopher won the Whitbread Award for literature.
Christopher Nolan was born on September 6, 1966, in Ireland. During birth, he suffered from a lack of oxygen, which caused severe brain damage. It turned out that he could neither speak nor control his movements other than his eye movements.
When he was 11 years old, he broke the shackles of silence after having been "locked in the coffin of his own body for years". Then, with the help of his teacher and a new drug that helped him relax his neck muscles, he managed to control his head tilts well enough to be able to press a typewriter key with a pin attached to his forehead. This required tremendous effort and concentration, but in addition, someone had to stand behind him and support his chin. His mother took on this role. When he thus got the "talk" his rare poetic abilities emerged. The boy turned out to have been composing poems since he was 3 years old and had kept them in his mind.
His first book, The Dam of Dreams, was published when he was 15. Christopher says he wrote his autobiography to "describe how my brain-damaged life is as normal to me as the lives of my healthy friends are to them." For the book, Christopher won the Whitbread Award for literature.