JL Carr

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Joseph Lloyd Carr also Jim or James (born May 20, 1912 in Carlton Miniott , North Yorkshire ; died February 26, 1994 in Kettering ) was a British writer .

Life

Joseph Lloyd Carr's father was station master on the North Eastern Railway . Measured by the standards, he was a bad and stubborn student and only after a detour was he approved for training as a school teacher. In 1938 he went to Huron in the Great Plains for a year as a teaching assistant as part of an exchange program .

When war broke out in 1939, Carr was recruited into the Royal Air Force and stationed in West Africa . At the end of the war, he and Sally Sexton married. In 1952 he became headmaster of Highfields Primary School in Kettering. In 1957 he went again as an exchange teacher to Huron and wrote a social history of the region with The Old Timers of Beadle County .

In 1967 he gave up the teaching profession to devote himself entirely to writing, and in the process also published a number of “small books” for a younger reading public.

Carr's novel A Month in the Country received the Guardian First Book Award in 1980 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . The book was made into a film in 1987. The 1985 novel The Battle of Pollocks Crossing was also nominated for the Booker Prize .

Works

  • A day in summer . London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1963
    • A day in summer . Translated from the English by Monika Köpfer. DuMont, Cologne, 2018
  • A Season in Sinji . London: Alan Ross, 1967
  • The Harpole Report . London: Secker and Warburg, 1972
    • The teachings of the principal George Harpole . Translated from the English by Monika Köpfer. DuMont, Cologne, 2019
  • How Steeple Sinderby Won the FA cup . London: London Magazine, 1974
    • How the Steeple Sinderby Wanderers won the trophy . Translated from the English by Monika Köpfer. With a foreword by Saša Stanišić . DuMont, Cologne 2017
  • A Month in the Country . Brighton: Harvester Press, 1980
    • A month in the country . Translated from the English by Monika Köpfer. DuMont, Cologne 2016
  • The Battle of Pollocks Crossing . New York: Viking, 1985
  • What Hetty Did, or, Life and letters . Kettering: Quince Tree Press, 1988
  • Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers . Kettering: JL Carr, Publisher, 1992
  • JL Carr: some early poems and recent drawings . Bury St Edmunds: Quince Tree Press, 2012
Small books (examples)
  • The red windcheater . 1970
  • The garage mechanic . 1972
  • The dustman . 1972
  • Red Foal's coat . 1974

literature

  • Byron Rogers : The Last Englishman: The Life of JL Carr . London: Aurum Press, 2003 (not used)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Day in Summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ^ Friedhelm Rathjen: luck on time . Review, in: NZZ , August 6, 2016, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Carr, JL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carr, Joseph Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlton Miniott
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1994
Place of death Kettering, Northamptonshire