Robert Schofield (born in Southampton in 1963) has been living in Luxembourg for the past 20 years. He first started writing when his children were small, and he was making up bedtime stories for them. His children’s book “The Hoogen- Stoogen Tulip” (illustrated by Luxembourgish artist Carlo Schmitz) made it to the shortlist of the Luxembourg Book Prize in 2013.
“The Treasury of Tales” is his second novel. The story, set in Napoleonic times, revolves around two brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob, who bear a more than superficial resemblance to the Grimm brothers. However, the author never intended to write a historically accurate account.
“The Treasure of Tales” is a reflection on the stories that have inspired people for countless generations, across the ever shifting and often arbitrary borders of modern nation states.
“The Treasury of Tales” (published by Black Fountain Press) was shortlisted for the 2021 Prix Servais, the most important literary prize in Luxembourg.
