Nick Cave
Musician, songwriter and author
Nick Cave is an Australian singer, songwriter and writer, best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Australian Born 1957 in Warracknabeal, Australia
About Nick Cave
Nick Cave was born in 1957 and raised in rural Victoria, Australia. He studied art in Melbourne and fronted the post-punk band The Birthday Party before forming Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1983. His first book, King Ink (1988), gathered lyrics and plays. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, appeared in 1989, and a second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, followed in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the Australian Western The Proposition. Since 2018 he has kept The Red Hand Files, a newsletter in which he answers questions from fans. In 2017 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. Faith, Hope and Carnage is the book of his that BookBits covers.