Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble , DBE (born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield , Yorkshire ) is a British writer and literary critic .
Life
Drabble went to a Quaker - boarding school in York and completed an English degree. She then worked as an editor at Newnham College , Cambridge and an actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company before starting her literary work.
In addition to a number of novels, she mainly wrote short stories and some dramas. For Jerusalem The Golden , Drabble was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1968 . In 1989 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2002 she was accepted as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1973 she received the EM Foster Award from this academy.
She was particularly interested in the writers Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson , about whom she wrote biographies; Wilson's works fascinated her from her student days.
One focus of her works are women-specific topics.
Drabble is married to Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset . She is the sister of AS Byatt .
Works (selection)
- A Summer Bird-Cage , 1963 (Eng. "The Summer Bird ", 1988)
- The Millstone , 1965 (Eng. "The Millstone", 1987)
- Jerusalem the Golden , 1967 (Eng. "Jerusalem. Golden City", 1988)
- The Realms of Gold , 1975 (German "Gold unterm Sand", 1978)
- The Ice Age , 1977
- The Middle Ground , 1980 (German "Portrait of a capable person", 1982)
- The Radiant Way , 1987 (Eng. "The elite after the festival", 1988)
- A Natural Curiosity , 1989 (Eng. "The Desire for Knowledge", 1990)
- The Gates of Ivory , 1991 (Eng. "The gates of ivory", 1993)
- The Witch of Exmoor , 1996 (Eng. "The Witch of Exmoor", 1998)
- The Seven Sisters , 2002
- The Red Queen , 2004
- The Sea Lady , 2006
- Collection of short stories
- A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman , 2011
Film adaptations
Literary template
- 1968: Touch of Love - based on the novel The Millstone
Script collaboration (additional dialogues)
- 1968: Isadora
Web links
- Literature by and about Margaret Drabble in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Margaret Drabble in the German Digital Library
- Margaret Drabble in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary Members: Margaret Drabble. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Margaret Drabble: Angus Wilson: Cruel-Kind Enemy of False Sentiment and Self-Delusion , The New York Times , January 29, 1995, accessed March 9, 2015.
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SURNAME | Drabble, Margaret |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and literary critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , Yorkshire |