Denis Ronald Sherman

Denis Ronald Sherman (born 1934 in Calcutta , India , † May 28, 1985 ) was a British writer.

Life

He spent his childhood in India , where he attended the Victoria & Dow Hill Schools in Klassenong , West Bengal , where his mother was also employed. At the age of 12 he was sent to the Brighton Grammar School in England . He later went to sea and worked for a railway company in South Africa. His travels took him to New Zealand. After all, he lived as a writer on Praslin Island in the Seychelles . Most of his works are set in the world that surrounded the writer, for example in West Bengal, South Africa and the Seychelles. For his novella 'Das Legereisen', published in 1965, he received a prize as part of the German Youth Literature Prize. Old Mali and the boy became compulsory English literature in both English and Scottish schools.

Works

Novels

• In der Sonne des Mittags , (English orig. Into the noonday Sun ) Translated by Gisela Jokisch
• The leghold trap , 1965, (orig. Old Mali and the Boy , 1964), trans. Werner Peterich
• Die Sünder , 1970, (Engl. Orig. The sinners ), transl. Helga Wingert-Uhde
• Companions of the Sea , (orig. Brothers of the Sea , 1972), transl. Gisela Jockisch
• Ryan, the killer , (Engl. Orig. Ryan , 1973), transl. Thomas Schlück
• The foreign boat , (Engl. Orig. The Boat , 1973), trans. EM Müller
• The track of the lion , (Engl. Orig. The Lion's Paw , 1974), transl. Anja Hegemann
• Pride of the Hunter , 1979

Short stories

• A Ring of Black Coral , 1966

Web links

• Literature by and about Denis Ronald Sherman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Victoria and Dow Hill Schools

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Headmaster's Diary - 1947. Victoria School - Coursesong.
2. ^ Library and Information, Volume 18 , Association of Librarians at Public Libraries, Publishing House Documentation., 1966
3. ^ The Books of Victoria and Dow Hill Schools