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Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000)

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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. mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen

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Werke von Penelope Fitzgerald

Die Buchhandlung (1977) 2,791 Exemplare
Die blaue Blume (1995) 1,959 Exemplare
Offshore (1979) 1,313 Exemplare
Frühlingsanfang. Roman. (1988) 822 Exemplare
Human Voices (1980) 518 Exemplare
Innocence (1986) 438 Exemplare
At Freddie's (1982) 378 Exemplare
The Golden Child (1977) 375 Exemplare
The Means of Escape (2000) 311 Exemplare
The Knox Brothers (1977) 190 Exemplare
A House of Air: Selected Writings (2003) 141 Exemplare
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (2013) 87 Exemplare

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Collected Ghost Stories (1931) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben2,280 Exemplare
Miss Marjoribanks (1866) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben478 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Mitwirkender — 190 Exemplare
Thank Heaven Fasting (1932) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben179 Exemplare
Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector and The Doctor's Family (1863) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben172 Exemplare
Salem Chapel (1863) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben163 Exemplare
The Root and the Flower (1935) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben148 Exemplare
Granta 74: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater (2001) — Mitwirkender — 140 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) — Mitwirkender — 122 Exemplare
House-Bound (1942) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben120 Exemplare
The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) — Mitwirkender — 119 Exemplare
The Bookshop [2017 film] (2018) — Original book — 61 Exemplare
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Mitwirkender — 49 Exemplare
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
TLS Short Stories (2003) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
The Novel on Blue Paper (1982) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben9 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Knox, Penelope Mary (born)
Geburtstag
1916-12-17
Todestag
2000-04-28
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
UK
Geburtsort
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Sterbeort
London, England, UK
Wohnorte
Southwold, Suffolk, England, UK
Ausbildung
University of Oxford (Somerville College|1938)
Berufe
novelist
biographer
journalist
tutor
Beziehungen
Knox, E. V. (father)
Knox, Ronald (uncle)
Knox, Wilfred (uncle)
Peck, Winifred (aunt)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (1996)
Golden PEN Award (1999)
Booker Prize (1979)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction, 1997)
Kurzbiographie
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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