Blake Morrison

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Philip Blake Morrison (born October 8, 1950 in Skipton ) is a British literary critic and writer.

Life

Blake Morrison is the child of a doctor couple, his mother was from Ireland. Morrison grew up in Thornton-in-Craven . He studied English and Literature at the University of Nottingham (BA), McMaster University in Canada (MA) and received his PhD from University College London . He worked from 1978 to 1981 for the Times Literary Supplement and as a literary critic from 1981 to 1989 for The Observer and from 1981 to 1989 for the Sunday edition of the Independent . His reviews have since appeared in The New Yorker , London Review of Books , New Statesman , New York Times , Poetry Review and, since 2001, regularly in The Guardian .

He has been a freelance writer since 1995. Morrison writes poetry and autobiographical texts. He also writes scripts for television and libretti for compositions by Gavin Bryars , Tansy Davies and Mira Calix . In 1996 he wrote The Cracked Pot, an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Des Zerbrochnen Krugs for the Northern Broadsides theater company . This was followed by adaptations of Sophocles King Oedipus (2001) and Antigone (2003), The Man with Two Gaffers , a version of Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters and the play Lisa's Sex Strike (2007).

His first novel, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg , was published in 2000. His autobiographical book The Time That Remains Us was filmed in 2007. Among his awards was the 1985 Somerset Maugham Award for the Dark Glasses poetry collection .

Morrison has been Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College , London, since 2003 . He is Vice Chairman of the UK PEN

Morrison is married. He lives in Blackheath , London.

Works (selection)

  • The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980
  • Seamus Heaney . London: Methuen, 1982
  • with Andrew Motion (Ed.): The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry . London: Penguin, 1982
  • Dark glasses . Poetry. London: Chatto & Windus, 1984
  • The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper (and Other Poems) . London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. Written in the Yorkshire dialect.
  • The Yellow House . Children's book. Illustrations Helen Craig . Walker Books, 1987
  • And When Did You Last See Your Father? London: Granta, 1993
    • When was the last time you saw your father? . Translation by Sabine Lohmann. Munich: Goldmann, 1994
  • with Sara Dunn , Michèle Roberts (Ed.): Mind Readings: Writers' Journeys Through Mental States . Minerva, 1996
  • Pendle Witches . Etchings Paula Rego . Enitharmon Press, 1996
  • The cracked pot . Samuel French, 1996
  • As If . London: Granta, 1997
    • Jamie . Translation by Heinrich Koop, Franca Fritz. Munich: Goldmann, 1998
  • Too True . London: Granta, 1998
  • Selected Poems . London: Granta, 1999
  • The Justification of Johann Gutenberg . London: Chatto & Windus, 2000
  • Things My Mother Never Told Me . London: Chatto & Windus, 2002
  • Antigone and Oedipus . After Sophocles. Northern Broadsides, 2003
  • South of the River . London: Chatto & Windus, 2007
  • The Last Weekend . London: Chatto & Windus, 2010
  • The executor . London: Chatto & Windus, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blake Morrison: Things My Mother Never Told Me
  2. ^ Blake Morrison , at Goldsmith College
personal data
SURNAME Morrison, Blake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrison, Philip Blake (Who's who)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Skipton