Jeremy Noble (writer)

Noble attended King's School, Bruton, and read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was supervised by the poet Geoffrey Hill, and graduated with upper second-class honours in 1987. He won a Half Blue for polo, playing for Cambridge University against Oxford University (Cambridge won 3–2, 7 June 1987). He was honorary treasurer for Cambridge University Polo Club.^{[3][failed verification]}

Noble moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to become a writer.^[4] He has since worked with various Russian cultural figures including Valery Gergiev, Alexander Sokurov, and Vladimir Bortko.^[5]

Noble has written for The Washington Post,^[6] St. Petersburg Press,^[7] P. N. Review,^[8] Literary Review,^[9] Open Democracy Russia,^[10] and Open Russia.^[11] He has written extensively about Russian ballet, and for Dance Magazine.^[12]

Noble has translated extensively from Russian into English, for major arts organisations and events,^[13] the president of the Russian Federation,^[14] and the mayor of Moscow.^[15]

Noble wrote the English-language dialogue for the 2005 film The Sun (directed by Alexander Sokurov). His play Marlene Made Me was shortlisted for the UK International Playwriting Festival, 2004. He was co-writer and guest historian for Glamour Puds, series 2, episode 9.^[16]

He has been seen on Russian TV in the role of Dr Paulson in Peter the Great: The Testament, directed by Vladimir Bortko, and on Ukrainian TV in the role of President of the Council of Vampires in Split, directed by Vlad Lanne.^[17]

Noble wrote the English-language dialogue for the 2015 film Dusha shpiona (in English The Soul of a Spy),^[18] directed by Vladimir Bortko, starring Malcolm McDowell, Liam Cunningham, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fyodor Bondarchuk, and Andrey Chernyshov.

Noble co-wrote the book for Kingmaker the Musical, which received its premiere at the St James Theatre, London, 31 March 2015.^[19]

He is the editor of Opposing Forces: Plotting the new Russia,^[20] a published account of the conversation in Red Square, Moscow, between opposition leader^[21] Alexei Navalny and the Polish intellectual and former dissident Adam Michnik.

His first novel Villa Eilenroc was published in 2016.^[22] His second novel A Russian Ending was published in 2022.^[23]