Louise Rennison

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Louise Rennison (born October 11, 1951 in Leeds , Yorkshire , † February 29, 2016 in Brighton ) was a British writer, comedian and journalist. She is best known for a series of books for young people that tell the life of the fictional 14-year-old English student Georgia Nicolson in diary form and are based on Rennison's own experiences during her youth.

Life

Rennison was born in 1951 to a 17-year-old mother and grew up in Leeds in an Irish-Jewish extended family with her parents, grandparents, uncles, aunt and cousins. She attended a private girls' school . When she was 15, the family immigrated to New Zealand . Because she didn't like it there, her parents sent her back to England after only six weeks, where she lived with her grandparents.

Because Louise had befriended the boy next door and the grandparents feared an early pregnancy like their mother's, they sent Louise back to her parents in New Zealand at the age of 17. Nevertheless, she got pregnant by a New Zealander at 17 and had a daughter who was adopted shortly after the birth and grew up in New Zealand. Rennison only met her when her daughter was over 20 years old.

After the birth of their daughter, Rennison met a man with whom she lived for seven years and returned to England at the age of 20. She lived in London in the 1970s . After various jobs, at the age of 32 she decided to revive an old childhood dream and took a course in fine arts at a college in Brighton . She began to take an interest in the stage and first appeared in her own comedy program called Stevie Wonder Felt My Face in the 1980s . Other programs such as Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head followed. Rennison has also written material for other stand up comedians , worked for BBC Radio 4 and wrote a column for London's Evening Standard newspaper . She caught the attention of a London publisher who asked her to write a book for teenage girls (called chick lit ).

Rennison wrote a book about the (fictional) 14-year-old English student Georgia Nicolson , which was based on her own youthful experiences and was published in 1999 under the title Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (German 2000 as Frontalknutschen ). Since the book won prizes such as the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award and sold well in the UK and the US, several sequels followed. The books reached millions of copies, especially in the USA ; the fourth track in the series, 'Dancing in my nuddy-pants!' , reached number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover books for children and young people in 2003, one week after it was published . At the end of June 2009, the title 'Are these my basoomas I see before me?' the tenth book in the series, which should also be the last.

Paramount film rights acquired, and in 2007 the first two books as were Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (dt. Angus, Thongs ), directed by Gurinder Chadha filmed, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was released in 2008; 15 year old Georgia Groome played the lead role as Georgia Nicolson. According to Rennison, there should not be a sequel to the film. A stage version of the story entitled Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging was shown in Leeds in 2012.

In July 2010, under the title Withering Tights, the first volume of a new three-volume series of Rennisons books called Misadventures of Tallulah Casey was published , which was written at a performing arts school in a world of friendship, rivalry and embarrassing moments (" a world of friendship, rivalry and embarrassing moments ”). In 2013 the third volume, The Taming of the Tights, was released . Then Rennison wanted to write again about Georgia Nicolson after a year off, now as a student.

Rennison was married twice and returned to London in 2012 after having lived in Brighton for a long time. She lived alone and died after an illness in late February 2016 at the age of 64.

Works

Series Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (German Confessions of Georgia Nicolson )

  1. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (1999; German Frontalknutschen , 2000)
  2. 'It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers!' (2000; US title: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God ; German: Beside Kussweit , 2001)
  3. 'Knocked out by my nunga-nungas.' (2001; German: Come on smooch!, 2002)
  4. 'Dancing in my nuddy-pants!' (2002; German: Kiss and End , 2004)
  5. '... and that's when it fell off in my hand.' (2004; US title: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel ; Ger .: Freshly messed up , 2006)
  6. '... then he ate my boy entrancers.' (2005; German: kissed up again , 2007)
  7. '... startled by his furry shorts!' (2006)
  8. 'Luuurve is a many trousered thing ...' (2007)
  9. 'Stop in the name of pants!' (2008)
  10. 'Are these my basoomas I see before me?' (2009)

Series Misadventures of Tallulah Casey

  1. Withering Tights (2010) (awarded the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010)
  2. A Midsummer Tights Dream (2012)
  3. The Taming of the Tights (2013)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Louise Rennison, author - obituary . telegraph.co.uk, March 2, 2016
  2. Louise Rennison dies . thebookseller.com, February 29, 2016
  3. Philippe-Jean Catinchi: La mort de Louise Rennison . lemonde.fr, March 3, 2016
  4. Louise Johncox: Time & Place: Standing out in the crowd . In: The Sunday Times . June 27, 2004 ( from timesonline.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2009] Louise Rennison on her youth in Leeds).
  5. ^ A b c Nicolette Jones: More than a brief flash of success . In: The Times . February 4, 2006 ( from timesonline.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2009]).
  6. Caroline Scott: Louise Rennison and her daughter, Kim O'Connor . In: The Sunday Times . June 19, 2005 ( from timesonline.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2009]).
  7. Jonathan Brown: Louise Rennison: The teen queen who never grew up . In: The Independent . February 7, 2012 ( from independent.co.uk [accessed February 10, 2012]).
  8. ^ A b Karen Saunders: Louise Rennison interviewed by Karen Saunders. (PDF; 365 kB) (No longer available online.) Write Away, December 13, 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 24, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.writeaway.org.uk
  9. a b Sarah Baxter: Tales of a British teen top US bestseller list . In: The Sunday Times . April 6, 2003 ( from timesonline.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2009]).
  10. ^ Children's Books. The New York Times, March 30, 2003, accessed June 12, 2009 .
  11. a b c d e Sheena Hastings: 'There's not a lot of difference between me and the young girls I write about' . In: Yorkshire Post . June 30, 2009 (in English, from yorkshirepost.co.uk [accessed October 2, 2010]).
  12. Frontal Nutschen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. a b c d Rod McPhee: Louise Rennison on books, snogging and the faultlines that face feminism . In: Yorkshire Post . July 12, 2013 (in English, from yorkshirepost.co.uk [accessed July 12, 2013]).
  14. Caroline Horn: Rennison pens 'Fame' series. The Bookseller, November 26, 2008, accessed January 20, 2013 .
  15. Information from HarperCollins for Withering Tights ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Rod McPhee: Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging at West Yorkshire Playhouse . In: Yorkshire Evening Post . January 19, 2012 (in English, from yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk [accessed January 20, 2011]).
  17. ^ Literary agents pay tribute to Rennison . thebookseller.com, March 1, 2016

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