![]() On his exit from the school in July 2013, having given a tearful farewell speech, he was given two standing ovations by the pupils and staff, and a 200-person dinner was given in his honour. Keates retired in order to focus on his chairmanship of the Venice in Peril Fund. ![]() In addition, Keates was an English teacher employed by the City of London School from 1974 to 2013 and a judge of several writing competitions. He also writes reviews in some magazines. He is very interested in Venice, and speaks Italian, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has written a number of acclaimed biographies and travel books, but his works of fiction have also received critical acclaim, most notably Allegro Postillions, for which he was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Jonathan Keates thus joins the queue of nineteenth-century writers Ruskin, Horatio Brown, Byron, George Sand and others who fell in love with the watery city. Jonathan Keates More than a labour of love, this is a work of adoration. He was educated at Bryanston School and went on to read for his undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford. LA SERENISSIMA The story of Venice 496pp. Jonathan Keates was born in Paris, France, in 1946. ![]() Keates FRSL (born 1946) is an English writer, biographer, novelist and former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund. ![]()
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