Malcolm Bradbury

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Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE (born September 7, 1932 in Sheffield , † November 27, 2000 in Norwich ) was a British novelist , satirist and literary scholar .

Life

Bradbury's father was a railroad worker; the family moved to London in 1935 but returned to Sheffield in 1941. After the family later moved to Nottingham , Bradbury attended high school in West Bridgford from 1943 to 1950 . He studied English at the University of Leicester and, after completing his first degree, moved to the University of London , where he received his MA in 1955. Between 1955 and 1958 Bradbury commuted between teaching positions at the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the USA. Because of a serious heart condition, he returned to England in 1958, where he was operated on; While in hospital, Bradbury finished his first novel in 1959: Eating People Is Wrong .

He married Elizabeth Salt, who would later give birth to two sons, Matthew and Dominic. Bradbury initially worked in adult education at the University of Hull . With a biographical study of Evelyn Waugh he began his career as a writer and editor of scientific works in 1962: at the University of Manchester he received his PhD in American Studies . From 1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Birmingham . In 1965 he published his second novel, Stepping Westward . In 1970 Bradbury became Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia . There, in collaboration with Angus Wilson, he established the renowned creative writing course , which Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro also completed. In 1995 he retired.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • The After Dinner Game
  • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
  • Eating People Is Wrong (1959)
  • Stepping Westward (1968)
  • The Social Context of Modern English Literature (1971)
  • Possibilities (1973)
  • Who Do You Think You Are - a collection of short stories
  • The History Man (1975)
    • dt. The historian
  • Rates of Exchange (1983)
    • German exchange rates
  • To the Hermitage (2000)
  • My Strange Quest for Mensonge: Structuralism's Hidden Hero (1987)
  • The Modern American Novel (1983)
  • Why Come to Slaka? (1986)
  • Cuts (1987)
  • No Not Bloomsbury (1987)
  • Mensonge (1987)
  • Doctor Criminale (1992)
  • The Modern British Novel (1993)
  • Dangerous Pilgrimages: Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the Novel (1995)
  • To the Hermitage (2000)

literature

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  1. ↑ Malcolm Bradbury's Chronological Resume , malcolmbradbury.com , accessed March 8, 2015.
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 55710, HMSO, London, December 30, 1999, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed October 1, 2013, English).

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personal data
SURNAME Bradbury, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradbury, Sir Malcolm Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British novelist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2000
Place of death Norwich