Charles Langbridge Morgan

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Charles Langbridge Morgan (born January 22, 1894 in Bromley , Kent , † February 6, 1958 in London ) was an English writer and critic .

Life

Charles Morgan attended naval schools in Osborne and Dartmouth and initially served in the Royal Navy in China from 1907 to 1913 . The outbreak of World War I delayed the start of his literary studies. Instead, he volunteered to return to the Navy and was interned in the Netherlands as a result of the siege of Antwerp (1914) .

After the end of the war, he studied at Oxford , became president of the university's theater company and married the Welsh writer Hilda Vaughan in 1923 , who bore him two children. In the next 20 years he wrote novels, plays and essays published in book form on a regular basis, including theater reviews for The Times and the New York Times . For the novel The Fountain Morgan received the Hawthornden Prize in 1932 .

During the Second World War he served in the Admiralty of the Royal Navy. In 1953 Morgan became President of the International PEN and in 1954 a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Works (selection)

  • The Gunroom (novel 1919)
  • My Name is Legion (novel 1925)
  • Portrait in a Mirror (Roman 1929) - German: Das Bildnis (1936)
  • The Fountain (novel 1932)
  • Epitaph on George Moore (Drama 1935)
  • Sparkenbroke (novel 1936)
  • The Flashing Stream (Drama 1938)
  • The Voyage (novel 1940)
  • The Empty Room (1941 novel)
  • Reflections in a Mirror (Essays; 1st volume 1944, 2nd volume 1946)
  • The Judge's Story (novel 1947)
  • The River Line (novel 1949)
  • A Breeze of Morning (Roman 1951) - German: Morgenbrise (1966)
  • The River Line (drama 1952)
  • The Burning Glass (drama 1953)
  • Challenge to Venus (novel 1957)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Assmann, Herbert Heckmann (Ed.): Between Criticism and Confidence. 50 years of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Charles Langbridge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromley , Kent
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1958
Place of death London