Margaret Drabble

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Margaret Drabble (2011)

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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary Members: Margaret Drabble. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Margaret Drabble: Angus Wilson: Cruel-Kind Enemy of False Sentiment and Self-Delusion , The New York Times , January 29, 1995, accessed March 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Drabble, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , Yorkshire