Celia Fremlin

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Celia Fremlin (pseudonym of Celia Margaret Goller ) (born June 20, 1914 in Kingsbury , † June 16, 2009 in Bournemouth ) was an English author.

life and work

Celia Fremlin was the daughter of the doctor Heaver Fremlin and his wife Margaret and the sister of the nuclear physicist John H. Fremlin (1913-1995); she attended the Berkhamsted School for Girls, Hertfordshire and Somerville College at Oxford University , where she studied classical philology and philosophy. Her first novel The Hours Before Dawn (dt. The hours before dawn) was published in 1958.

She was a member of the Society of Women Journalists, the PEN Club and the British Crime Writers' Association . Her psychological novels like Father's Stolz (1994) were published in German by Diogenes . Four novels have been translated by Isabella Nadolny , for example the new translation of The Spider Orchid (Eng. The Spider Orchid ).

Fremlin was married to Elia Goller († 1968) from 1942, with whom she had a son and two daughters. In 1985 she married Leslie Minchin († 1999).

Awards

bibliography

Novels

  • The Jealous ( "The Jealous One"). Diogenes, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-257-22542-3 .
  • Dangerous thoughts ( "Dangerous Thoughts"). Diogenes, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-257-06005-X .
  • Is there a baby who doesn't cry? Roman ("With No Crying"). Diogenes, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-257-22430-3 .
  • Klimax or extraordinary example of motherly love (“Possession”). New edition Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-23891-4 .
  • The Long Shadow ( "The Long Shadow"). Diogenes, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-257-22657-8 .
  • Uncle Paul ("Uncle Paul"). Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-01818-5 .
  • Parasite Person ("The Parasite Person"). Diogenes, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-257-22682-9 .
  • Rendezvous with yesterday (“Appointment with Yesterday”). Diogenes, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-21603-3 (former title Encounter with the Past ).
  • Seven lean years. Roman ("Seven Lean Years"). Diogenes, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-257-22681-0 (former title Years of Despair ).
  • The Spider-Orchid ("The Spider-Orchid"). Diogenes, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-21727-7 (former title Das Tagebuch des Todes ).
  • The hours before dawn. Roman ("The Hours Before Dawn"). Diogenes, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-257-21515-0 .
  • The Tudor Castle. Roman ("The Echoing Stones"). Diogenes, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-257-22876-7 .
  • Troublemakers ("The Trouble Makers"). Diogenes, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-257-22602-0 .
  • Father's pride ("King of the World"). Diogenes, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-257-06182-X .
  • Who is afraid of the black man? ("Prisoner's Base"). Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-21302-6 .
  • Twilight ("Listening in the Dusk"). Diogenes, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-257-01918-1 .

Anthologies with stories

  • By horror haunted. Stories . 2nd edition Gollancz, London 1974.
  • Don't go to sleep in the dark. Short stories . 2nd edition Gollancz, London 1979, ISBN 0-575-00571-8 .
  • A beautiful day to die for. Stories ("A Lovely Day to Die"). Diogenes, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-257-21985-7 .
  • Weather change. Stories ("A change in the weather"). Diogenes, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-257-22620-9 .

individual stories

Poems

  • Duet in verse. Some Occasionel Poems . Pioneer Arts, London 1996, ISBN 0-907616-83-6 . (in cooperation with Leslie Minchin)

Film adaptations

Regina Ziegler produced four television films based on novels by Celia Fremlin for ZDF . Wolf Gremm directed all of them .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The place of birth is specified in the obituary of the Times with Ryarsh, Kent ; see Times of September 9, 2009
  2. ^ Guardian, September 6, 2009
  3. ↑ no original English edition in WorldCat records
personal data
SURNAME Fremlin, Celia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goller, Celia Margaret (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingsbury
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2009
Place of death Bournemouth