Jonathan L Trapman

Jonathan L. Trapman, author and photographer, has written since aged 9 and photographed professionally since aged 16. His first novel The Bull got fair marks at school marking him out as an author in need of improvement.

Defying early detractors his professional career as a photojournalist included working for some of the top titles in Fleet Street. Among them the London Times, Daily Express and a very short and boring stint with the Sun newspaper.

Exposed to the propaganda and half-truths demanded from photo/journalists in the ‘70s and 80s, he decided his soul was worth more than shekels earned from the news rooms of corporate cronyism.

Marking his further career becoming one of the industry’s foremost photographers he enjoyed getting to know the world, its peoples and a far wider vision of life on earth on others’ behalf and at others’ expense.

He has appeared on TV and radio including the BBC, France Inter and online radio. He has been invited to speak at creative and literary conferences across the globe.

Early 2012, in partnership with his wife, had him accomplish several translations of foreign writers. The most enduring, endearing and groundbreaking has been the first ever, in over 900 years, translation of 11th century Sufi founder and mystic saint Hoja Ahmed Yassawi’s Diwani Hikmet (Divine Wisdom) poetry and sacred verse.

Currently he is authoring The Freedom Cycle an ambitious heptalogy (seven book) project, Dreams and Realities being the first. With the second volume, Angel of Redemption, due out early summer 2017, the remainder are set to roll out over the next few years, with film options in discussion.

Jonathan presently lives in Somerset, UK.