Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome (born January 18, 1884 in Leeds , † June 3, 1967 at Cheadle ) was a British writer. He is the creator of the children's book series Swallows and Amazons .
Life
The son of a history professor first studied science at the Yorkshire College of Science , which he broke off after two semesters in favor of a literary career. In 1902 he came to London, where he initially worked as an errand boy for a publishing house. As a freelance journalist and author, he later wrote about Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde, among others, and was editor of short stories.
In 1913 he came to Russia as a correspondent for the Daily News . He was in contact with the Secret Intelligence Service . In particular, he reported on the October Revolution . In 1916 he had success with Old Peter's Russian Tales , a collection of Russian fairy tales and legends. With his ketch Racundra he sailed to the Baltic States, which he talks about in the book Racundra's First Cruise published in 1923 . From 1919 he worked for the Manchester Guardian .
Freshly divorced from his first marriage, he married Evgenia Shelepin in 1924, who had worked as a secretary for Leon Trotsky . He had to return to England for health reasons. He lived in the rural Lake District , where his series of children's books, The Battle for the Island ( Swallows and Amazons ), started in 1930 , is set. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1936 for Pigeon Post .
Works
- Non-fiction
- Bohemia in London (essays, 1907)
- Six weeks in Soviet Russia ( Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 , 1919)
- The crisis in Russia ( The Crisis in Russia , 1921)
- Racundra's First Cruise (1923)
- Short stories
- The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911)
- Children's book
- Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916)
- The Battle for the Island ( Swallows and Amazons , 1930)
- In Schwalbental (Swallowdale, 1931)
- Peter Duck (1932)
- Winter Holiday (1933) ( Christmas holidays , Leonhard Friedrich, Bad Pyrmont 1948)
- Coot Club (1934)
- Pigeon Post (1936)
- The Involuntary Seafaring ( We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea , 1937)
- Secret Water (1939)
- The Big Six (1940)
- Missee Lee (1941) ( Pirate Queen Li , Union Stuttgart 1979)
- The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
- Great Northern? (1947)
literature
- Hugh Brogan: The Life of Arthur Ransome. Pimlico, London 1992, ISBN 0-7126-5249-3 .
- Peter Hunt: Arthur Ransome. Twayne, Boston 1991, ISBN 0-8057-7003-8 .
- Roland Chambers: The last Englishman: the double life of Arthur Ransome. Faber and Faber, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-571-22261-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Ransome in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wayne G. Hammond: Arthur Michell Ransome. In: Encyclopædia Britannica Online . Retrieved July 16, 2009.
- ↑ Ransome, Arthur. In: Ed. ICB Dear, Peter Kemp (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . Oxford University Press, 2007.
- ↑ Ransome, Arthur Michell. In: Margaret Drabble (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2000.
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SURNAME | Ransome, Arthur |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ransome, Arthur Michell |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1884 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 1967 |
Place of death | Cheadle |