Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016)
Auteur de Le Grand Incendie
A propos de l'auteur
Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia on January 30, 1931. Before becoming an author in the early 1960s, she went to work for the British Combined Intelligence Services in Hong Kong, was an employee of the British High Commissioner's Office in Wellington, New Zealand, and was a technical afficher plus assistant to under-developed countries for the United Nations. Her first book, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories, was published in 1963. Her other books include The Evening of the Holiday, People in Glass Houses, The Bay of Noon, Greene on Capri, Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case, Defeat of an Ideal, and The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples written with her husband Francis Steegmuller. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1980 for The Transit of Venus and the National Book Award for fiction in 2003 for The Great Fire. She died on December 12, 2016 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) Shirley Hazzard's books include "The Evening of the Holiday", "The Bay of Noon", & "The Transit of Venus" (winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction). (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Shirley Hazzard
Hazzard, Shirley Archive 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Contributeur — 255 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1931-01-30
- Date de décès
- 2016-12-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Naples, Italy
New York, New York, USA
Capri, Italy
New Zealand
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, UK - Études
- Queenwood School for Girls
- Professions
- author
intelligence agent - Relations
- Steegmuller, Francis (husband)
- Organisations
- United Nations Secretariat
- Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1966)
- Agent
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 4,464
- Popularité
- #5,610
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 94
- ISBN
- 116
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 14