Penelope Lively
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Lively, Penelope
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Lively, Penelope Low
- Geburtstag
- 1933-03-17
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Cairo, Egypt
- Wohnorte
- Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cairo, Egypt - Ausbildung
- St Anne's College, University of Oxford (BA|1954)
- Berufe
- novelist
short-story writer
memoirist
historian - Beziehungen
- Lively, Jack (husband)
Lively, Adam (son) - Organisationen
- PEN
The Society of Authors
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- 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) (Zeige alle 7)
Whitbread Children's Book Award (1976) - Agent
- David Higham Associates
- Kurzbiographie
- 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.
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