Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000)
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A propos de l'auteur
In 1997 Penelope Fitzgerald's novel The Blue Flower was named one of the New York Times Book Review's eleven Best Books of the Year. Winner of the 1979 Booker Prize for Offshore, Fitzgerald was also short-listed for the Booker for The Bookshop. The Beginning of Spring, and The Gate of Angels. afficher plus Penelope Fitzgerald lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) Penelope Fitzgerald, one of England's most-celebrated contemporary writers, is the author of "The Blue Flower," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the 1979 Booker Prize for "Offshore," she was also shortlisted for the Booker for "The Bookshop," "The Beginning of Spring," & "The Gate of Angels." She lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography) Admired by many as one of the leading English novelists of her day, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) wrote some twelve books of fiction and nonfiction over the course of her writing career; which began at the age of sixty. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Blue Flower" and the Booker Prize for "Offshore". She died on April 28, 2000, at the age of eighty-three. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Penelope Fitzgerald
May Anthology 1996, Short Stories and Poetry. The Best of Oxford and Cambridge Creative Writing. 1 exemplaire
At Hiruharama 1 exemplaire
Fitzgerald Penelope 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Histoires de fantômes complètes (1931) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 2,349 exemplaires, 44 critiques
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 458 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector and The Doctor's Family (1863) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 174 exemplaires, 7 critiques
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires, 1 critique
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen: 52 (Tales of the Weird) (2024) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Knox, Penelope Mary (born)
- Date de naissance
- 1916-12-17
- Date de décès
- 2000-04-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Southwold, Suffolk, England, UK
- Études
- University of Oxford (Somerville College|1938)
- Professions
- novelist
biographer
journalist
tutor - Relations
- Knox, E. V. (father)
Knox, Ronald (uncle)
Knox, Wilfred (uncle)
Peck, Winifred (aunt) - Prix et distinctions
- The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (1996)
Golden PEN Award (1999)
Booker Prize (1979)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction, 1997) - Courte biographie
- Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000), laureatasi ad Oxford nel 1939, ebbe varie esperienze di lavoro e di vita, fra l'altro il giornalismo e la storia dell'arte. Iniziò a scrivere opere narrative all'età di sessant'anni. Quasi tutti i suoi romanzi hanno vinto premi prestigiosi fra cui il Booker Prize. Penelope Fitzgerald definiva i suoi romanzi «microchip novels», romanzi in miniatura, scherzando sulla concisione alla quale tutti sono improntati, e che è diventata un po' il suo marchio di fabbrica; a proposito di uno di essi Auberon Waugh, critico famoso per la sua ferocia, dichiarò che per la prima volta nella sua carriera si sorprendeva a pregare una donna di scrivere non di meno, ma di più. Presto diventata popolarissima, la Fitzgerald era stata salutata fin dal debutto come «a writer's writer», un autore per autori, in quanto l'economia e la precisione del suo stile, la salda organizzazione del suo estro, la secchezza del suo umorismo, e la competenza sfoggiata in qualunque argomento ella affronti, sono particolarmente apprezzati da chi se ne intende.
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1916: Penelope Fitzgerald - Resources and General Discussion à Literary Centennials (Février 2016)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 21
- Membres
- 11,041
- Popularité
- #2,137
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 385
- ISBN
- 248
- Langues
- 14
- Favoris
- 58