Josephine Hart

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Josephine Hart (born March 1, 1942 in Mullingar , County Westmeath , † June 2, 2011 in London ) was an Irish-British writer , publisher , theater producer and television presenter . She was best known for her debut novel Verboden , published in 1991 , which became an international bestseller and was later filmed by Louis Malle .

Life

Hart was one of seven siblings to Catholic parents; the father was a garage manager. She grew up in Mullingar and attended the local boarding school there . She was later sent to the Convent School in Carrickmacross , County Monaghan , by her parents . Boarding school nuns encouraged her to gain some stage experience reciting poetry at Irish festivals. As a twelve year old she knew Shakespeare sonnets , Yeats and WH Auden by heart. In 1964, when she was 22, she moved to London .

“I was a word child in a country of word children, where life was language before it was anything else. Poets were not only heroes, they were indeed the gods of language. "

- Josephine Hart : Guardian obituary dated June 3, 2011

Hart made a career in publishing and ran the media group Haymarket Publishing . Out of love for poetry, she founded the series of poets reading events Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour in London. This finally culminated in the often overcrowded Josephine Hart Poetry Hour in the British Library building . The result of this series was the poetry collection Catching Life By the Throat (2006).

"Poetry, this trinity of sound, sense and sensibility, gives voice to experience in a way that no other literary art form can."

- Josephine Hart : Guardian obituary dated June 3, 2011

Her production Let Us Go Then, You and I, a look at Eliot 's life and works was originally planned only as a one-off evening event, but in 1987 it became a six-week hit at the Lyric Theater on Shaftesbury Avenue due to demand . For her Gallery Poets and later her Poetry Hour she won numerous celebrities and actors, including Juliet Stephenson, Edward Fox , Roger Moore , Harriet Walter , Bob Geldof , Harold Pinter , Eileen Atkins, Bono and Dominic West .

“Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. "

- Josephine Hart : Catching Life By the Throat

She has also produced numerous plays, including the award-winning The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . It was in 1989 for a few months TV presenter in the Thames Television series Books by My bedside . To do this, she interviewed people like Derek Jarman , Clare Short and Jackie Collins in front of the camera .

Hart was married twice, first to the publisher Paul Buckley, and most recently to the well-known advertising agency magnate Maurice Saatchi since 1984 . She had a son each with both husbands. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 69 . Her literary estate was given to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University .

Works

  • Damage , Vintage Books, 1991
    • Doom , Roman, Knaus, Munich 1991
  • Sin , Vintage Books, 1992
    • Sin , Roman, Knaus, Munich 1992
  • Oblivion , Vintage Books, 1995
  • The Stillest Day , Chatto & Windus, 1998
  • The Reconstructionist , Chatto & Windus, 2001
  • Catching Life By the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets , WW Norton, 2008
  • The Truth About Love , Roman, Virago, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luisa Consolaro: Narcisismi di coppia: Le due donne del Dr. Fleming . In: Aldo Mattucci (ed.): Storie e geografie familiari - Rivista di approfondimento culturale, clinico e formativo ad approccio sistemico relazionale . No. 3 . Scione Editore / ITFV / ITFS, Roma 2009, ISBN 978-88-6451-029-3 , p. 35-46 .
  2. ↑ Peter Guttridge in The Independent from June 3, 2011: Josephine Hart: Novelist best known for 'Damage' who was also a producer, presenter and a passionate advocate for poetry
  3. ↑ http://mobil.derstandard.at/1304553650515
  4. ↑ a b c d Lennie Goodings in The Guardian of June 3, 2011: Josephine Hart obituary Poetry evangelist and author of Damage, the bestselling novel that was made into a film
  5. ↑ http://kurier.at/kultur/3911126.php
  6. ↑ The Telegraph of June 3, 2011: Obituary: Josephine Hart (obituary)
personal data
SURNAME Hart, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saatchi, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-British writer, publisher, theater producer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mullingar , County Westmeath
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2011
Place of death London