Penelope Lively
Auteur de Moon Tiger
A propos de l'auteur
Penelope Lively has written over 18 books for children, and over 15 titles for adults, distinguishing herself on both levels. Among the awards she has received are the coveted Booker Prize for the adult novel "Moon Tiger" (1987) and the Carnegie Medal for the highly acclaimed juvenile work, "The afficher plus Ghost of Thomas Kempe" (1973). In Lively's writing, for both adults and children, the recurrent theme is interpreting the past through exploring the function of memory. "My particular preoccupation as a writer is with memory. Both with memory in the historical sense and memory in the personal sense." Beginning her writing career in the early 1970's, Lively wrote exclusively for children for over a decade. Because children have limited memories, devices were used to explore their perceptions of the past, such as ghosts in "Uninvited Ghosts and Other Stories" (1985), and a sampler in "A Stitch in Time' (1976). Lively's first adult novel, "The Road to Lichfield" (1977) was the result of turning to an older audience when she felt inspiration running out. Her adult novels include "Passing On" (1995), the story of a mother's legacy to her children and 'Oleander, Jacarandi: A Childhood Perceived' (1994) which is a memoir of Lively's childhood. Penelope (Low) Lively, born March 17, 1933 in Cairo, Egypt, had a most unusual childhood. She grew up in Cairo with no formal education until age 12, when her family put her in boarding school in England. After earning a B.A. in history at Oxford in 1955, she married Jack Lively, a university professor, whom she calls her most useful critic. They have a son and a daughter, Adam and Josephine. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Penelope Lively
By Penelope Lively - Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived : A Memoir (1994-04-16) [Hardcover] 1 exemplaire
Cleopatra’s Sister 1 exemplaire
Next Term, We'll Mash You 1 exemplaire
Family Album — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Summer Heat 1 exemplaire
'A Maverick Historian' in The Atlantic Monthly 287/2, Feb 2001 [review of Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy] 1 exemplaire
Anel de Areia 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories (Young Oxford Books) (2001) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Lively, Penelope
- Nom légal
- Lively, Penelope Low
- Date de naissance
- 1933-03-17
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Cairo, Egypt
- Lieux de résidence
- Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cairo, Egypt - Études
- St Anne's College, University of Oxford (BA|1954)
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
memoirist
historian - Relations
- Lively, Jack (husband)
Lively, Adam (son) - Organisations
- PEN
The Society of Authors
Friends of the British Library - Prix et distinctions
- Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (2012)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2001)
Officer, Order of the British Empire (1989)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1985)
Booker Prize (1987)
Carnegie Medal (1973) (tout afficher 7)
Whitbread Children's Book Award (1976) - Agent
- David Higham Associates
- Courte biographie
- Novelist and children's writer Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there. She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann's College, Oxford. Penelope Lively contributes regularly to a number of national daily newspapers and literary and educational journals including the Sunday Times, The Observer and the Times Educational Supplement. She has written radio and television scripts and was presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN and a former Chairman of The Society of Authors. She was awarded an OBE in 1989 and a CBE in 2001.
Membres
Discussions
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO à 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Mars 2015)
Critiques
Kurze Inhaltsangabe
Claudia Hampton - schön, berühmt, unabhängig, im Sterben liegend.
Aber sie bleibt trotzig bis zum Schluss und sagt ihren Krankenschwestern, dass sie eine "Geschichte der Welt ... und dabei auch meine eigene" schreiben wird. Und es ist ihre Geschichte von der Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Doch Claudias Leben ist mit dem anderer Menschen verwoben, und sie muss denen, die sie kannten und liebten, die Möglichkeit geben, zu Wort zu kommen und ihren Standpunkt darzulegen. Da ist Gordon, Bruder und Widersacher; Jasper, ihr unzuverlässiger Liebhaber und Vater von Lisa, ihrer kühlen, konventionellen Tochter; und dann ist da noch Tom, ihre einzige große Liebe, die sie im Ägypten des Krieges gefunden und verloren hat.… (plus d'informations)
Claudia Hampton - schön, berühmt, unabhängig, im Sterben liegend.
Aber sie bleibt trotzig bis zum Schluss und sagt ihren Krankenschwestern, dass sie eine "Geschichte der Welt ... und dabei auch meine eigene" schreiben wird. Und es ist ihre Geschichte von der Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Doch Claudias Leben ist mit dem anderer Menschen verwoben, und sie muss denen, die sie kannten und liebten, die Möglichkeit geben, zu Wort zu kommen und ihren Standpunkt darzulegen. Da ist Gordon, Bruder und Widersacher; Jasper, ihr unzuverlässiger Liebhaber und Vater von Lisa, ihrer kühlen, konventionellen Tochter; und dann ist da noch Tom, ihre einzige große Liebe, die sie im Ägypten des Krieges gefunden und verloren hat.… (plus d'informations)
I was disappointed with this Penelope Lively. The action involves a family of two parents, six children and Ingrid, a long-standing mother's help. There are family secrets. Penelope Lively shows a family where the children are a unit, separate from their parents. They mostly leave home as soon as they can and just occasionally return, with the exception of the oldest, Paul, who struggles to hold down a job. The father is a shadowy figure, mostly in his study writing books. The mother and Ingrid spend all their hours in the kitchen and the garden. For the mother the family is everything. Only Gina, the second eldest, really comes alive at all for me. The adult children have a chapter and an internal monologue but so much of this has no depth.… (plus d'informations)
very good, 3.5 - but I have to say I'm curious about whom Penelope bases the complete drips of husbands that adorn her novels on! In a chat on this general subject in "How It All Began" one of the characters refers to them as lettuces, and it does seem to fit, though rather old, limp and smelly lettuces. The women are cleaver, interesting and complex and the story carries quite well, as they tolerate their burden of boring men. It seems lovers are the only male characters that are not desperately lame, but in this work even this only applies to some lovers, the character of Jeremy intersects with both groups and definitely deserves segregation to the husband phenotype.
The digs at The Da Vinci Code, including on the cover photo of this edition, are fun.
Although I enjoyed it I doubt I'll ever read it again.… (plus d'informations)
The digs at The Da Vinci Code, including on the cover photo of this edition, are fun.
Although I enjoyed it I doubt I'll ever read it again.… (plus d'informations)
Listes
Which house? (1)
AP Lit (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Gardening (1)
Women in War (1)
TLS 6011 (1)
Unmarried women (1)
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- Œuvres
- 73
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- 32
- Membres
- 13,222
- Popularité
- #1,768
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 471
- ISBN
- 651
- Langues
- 21
- Favoris
- 45
OPD: 2013
format: 234-page paperback
acquired: April 2023 read: Feb 23-29 time reading: 6:20, 1.6 mpp
rating: 3½
genre/style: Personal Essaystheme: TBR
locations: Mainly Egypt and England, but also New England, Wales and Jerusalem
about the author: English author born Cairo in 1933, who moved to England in 1945.
Very different from what I was expecting. I was hoping for a memoir, but really this is a collection of five personal essays on somewhat random topics - on being 80, on her life in light of the Suez crisis of 1956 (as she grew up in Egypt), on memory, on reading (and a little on writing), and on some personal objects and the thoughts they inspire (which is where the title comes from). It's all written with her sharp intelligent prose, that is it reads beautifully. And, reading her essay on being 80, you can't help but be struck by how mentally sharp she is as a writer.
I think if you are in the right state of mind, this is a wonderful book. I came at it wrong. And so, for me, it didn't amount to much more than some light distracting entertainment.
She does have some lovely quotes:
On writing versus life:
On memory:
On Reading:
On education in an Egyptian expat school:
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https://www.librarything.com/topic/358760#8449719… (plus d'informations)