Deborah Moggach

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Deborah Moggach (2009)

Deborah Moggach OBE (born Deborah Hough on June 28, 1948 ) is a British writer.

Life

Deborah Hough is one of the five children of Richard Hough (1922–1999) and his wife Charlotte (née Woodyatt) (1924–2008). Her parents were writers: Richard Hough authored over 90 Navy history books, biographies, and children's books. Charlotte Hough also wrote children's books and illustrated her own and those written by other authors. She grew up in Bushey , Hertfordshire and St. John's Wood in London and attended Camden School for Girls and Queen's College, London . After finishing school, she studied English at the University of Bristol and began teacher training in 1971, but then decided to work for Oxford University Press .

Moggach has published a large number of novels as well as two volumes of short stories and a play. She wrote the script for the television version of many of her books herself. She also wrote screenplays for works by other authors and in 2005 the screenplay for the film Pride & Prejudice .

Moggach is an active member of the Society of Authors , she was on the board of the British PEN and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . In 2005 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol . She is an activist for the right to a self-determined death .

Private

Deborah Hough (Moggach) was married to Tony Moggach's first marriage. From this marriage the daughter Lotti and the son Tom emerged. The marriage ended in divorce. From 1984 to 1994 she was the partner of cartoonist Mel Calman († 1994). After Calman's death, she lived with the Hungarian painter Csaba Pásztor for seven years. In 2014 she married the journalist Mark Williams.

Works (selection)

  • You Must Be Sisters (1978)
    • Sisters: Roman . Gunhild Himmelein in Romanian. Heidelberg: Guys, 1979
  • Close to Home (1979)
  • A Quiet Drink (1980)
  • Hot Water Man (1982)
  • Porky (1983)
    • Red with shame: story of a destroyed innocence . Translation by Sabine Hedinger . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1985
  • To Have and to Hold (1986)
    • The Nine Month Fallen: Novel of a Surrogacy . Translation by Dorothee Asendorf. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1988
  • Smile and Other Stories (1987)
    • And tomorrow the Prince Charming arrives: stories of men and women and other impossibilities . Translation by Ursula Mössner. Bern; Munich ; Vienna: Scherz, 1995
  • Driving in the Dark (1988)
    • A man made to measure: Roman . Translation by Dorothee Asendorf. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1990
  • Stoles (1990)
  • The Stand-In (1991)
    • The doppelganger: Roman . Translation by Ursula-Maria Mössner. Bern; Munich ; Vienna: Scherz, 1992
  • The Ex-Wives (1993)
  • Changing Babies and Other Stories (1995)
  • Seesaw (1996)
  • Close Relations (1997)
  • Tulip Fever (1999). Filmed as Tulip Fever
    • Tulip fever: novel . Translation by Ursula Wulfekamp. Berlin: Insel, 2016
  • Final Demand (2001)
  • These Foolish Things (2004). Filmed as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • In the Dark (2007)
  • Heartbreak Hotel (2013)
    • Broken Hearts Club: Roman . Translation of Adelheid Dormagen. Berlin: Insel, 2013
  • Something to Hide (2015)
  • The Carer (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Guardian October 19, 1999: Richard Hough (obituary)
  2. ^ New York Times October 18, 1999: Richard Hough, 77, Historian and Biographer
  3. Deborah Moggach - Home - Biography
  4. Author Deborah Moggach searches for love , Daily Mail, November 3, 2005
  5. ^ Honorary degrees awarded , University of Bristol, February 16, 2005
  6. ^ The Bookseller December 8, 2015: Obituary: Tony Moggach
  7. Csaba Pásztor - Homesite - About
  8. Lotti Moggach , at DNB