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. vis mere 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) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Penelope Fitzgerald
May Anthology 1996, Short Stories and Poetry. The Best of Oxford and Cambridge Creative Writing. 1 eksemplar
At Hiruharama 1 eksemplar
Fitzgerald Penelope 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector and The Doctor's Family (1863) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 172 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Knox, Penelope Mary (born)
- Fødselsdato
- 1916-12-17
- Dødsdag
- 2000-04-28
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Dødssted
- London, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Southwold, Suffolk, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- University of Oxford (Somerville College|1938)
- Erhverv
- novelist
biographer
journalist
tutor - Relationer
- Knox, E. V. (father)
Knox, Ronald (uncle)
Knox, Wilfred (uncle)
Peck, Winifred (aunt) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (1996)
Golden PEN Award (1999)
Booker Prize (1979)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction, 1997) - Kort biografi
- 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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Discussions
1916: Penelope Fitzgerald - Resources and General Discussion i Literary Centennials (februar 2016)
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The Bookshop af Penelope Fitzgerald
I pretty read this small and perfectly formed novel in one sitting. It disabuses you of the romance of opening a bookshop in a small town by the sea - there is a remarkably little about books in it, and a lot about small-mindedness, annoying neighbours and the difficulties of being an outsider. Recommended.
If you have ever thought given your love of books you might one day start or one day might have started a bookshop, you might find this book of interest. Or maybe it's not the book for you. In any case, location is, of course, paramount. I liked the sea nearby, the beach, the characters and how they say what they don't mean, or withhold at any rate what they're really thinking. The small town economics, politics, social classes, education. The old building in disrepair and haunted. The outsider from outside, and the outsider from within. There's a movie, which did not hold entirely to the book, but it's a good movie, and does the book no harm.… (mere)
The first of Penelope Fitzgerald's books I read, and not that many years ago, and it remains my favorite - I reread it just a few weeks ago. The young girls, sisters, Tilda and Martha, and their mom, Nenna, whose husband, a World War II veteran who refuses to live on the houseboat with them, a converted river barge, named "Grace," moored with several others on Battersea Reach, on the Thames, in London, all the boats not all that seaworthy, even if they don't set sail. The girls are truant, their mother capable, articulate, but in the doldrums. Third-person omniscient, with plenty of "free indirect style." Sensational characters, setting, dialog, and description of wet and dry circumstances. The scene where Nenna travels across town to talk to her husband, Edward, living in circumstances she doesn't understand, and gets lost on the way back to the boat - a most moving, tragi-comic scene. The writing is clear and unaffected. First published in Great Britain in 1979. The Mariner Books copy is pleasant on the eyes and in the hands.… (mere)
This I found one of Penelope's more difficult to read books. Something to do with the setting, time, maybe, historically more complicated than "Offshore." First published in 1986.
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- 26
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- 20
- Medlemmer
- 10,827
- Popularitet
- #2,193
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 385
- ISBN
- 247
- Sprog
- 14
- Udvalgt
- 59
