Michèle Roberts

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Michèle Brigitte Roberts (born May 20, 1949 in Bushey , Hertfordshire ) is a British writer.

Life

Michèle Roberts is the daughter of a British and a Frenchwoman and grew up in Edgware , Middlesex . She attended a Catholic convent school and studied English at Somerville College of Oxford University . She trained as a librarian at University College London . She was with the British Council in Bangkok in 1973/74 .

Roberts has been active in the women's movement since the 1970s. With Sara Maitland , Michelene Wandor and Zoe Fairbairns she formed a socialist writing collective.

From 1975 to 1977 she worked for the feminist magazine Spare Rib and from 1981 to 1983 for the free city magazine City Limits . Her first novel, A Piece of the Night , was published in 1978. The novel Daughters of the House was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1992 and received the 1993 WH Smith Literary Award . Her autobiography Paper Houses , published in 2010, also sheds light on her writing.

Roberts taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia . She has been a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University on several occasions . In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was appointed Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , and she was rejected as a "Republican" from the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Works (selection)

Daughters of the House (Virago, 1992)
  • A piece of the night . Women's Press, London 1978. Autobiographical.
  • The visitation . Women's Press, London 1978.
  • with Michelene Wandor ; Judith Kazantzis : Touch Papers: Three Women Poets . Allison and Busby, 1982.
  • The Wild Girl . London: Methuen, 1984. Also under the title The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene .
    • The friend of the gentleman: Roman . Translation of Sieglinde Körnstke. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Knaur, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-426-08055-9 .
  • The Mirror of the Mother . Poetry. Methuen, London 1986.
  • The Book of Mrs. Noah . Methuen, London 1987.
  • The Journeyman . Play performed in 1988.
  • Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing . Essays. Virago Press, London 1988.
  • In the Red Kitchen . Methuen, London 1990.
  • Psyche and the Hurricane . Poetry. Methuen, London 1991.
  • Your Shoes . Short stories. 1991
  • Daughters of the House . Virago, London 1992.
  • During Mother's Absence . Virago, London 1992.
  • During Mother's Absence . Short stories. Virago, London 1993.
  • Flesh & Blood . Virago, London 1994.
  • All the Selves I Was . Poetry. Virago, London 1995.
  • with Sara Dunn; Blake Morrison: Mind Readings: Writers' Journeys Through Mental States . Minerva, 1996.
  • Impossible Saints. Hopewell . Ecco Press, London 1998.
  • Fair exchange . Little, Brown, London 1999. Short story about Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth .
  • The Looking Glass . Little, Brown, London 2000. About Stéphane Mallarmé .
  • Playing sardines . Short stories. Virago, London 2001.
  • The mistress class . Little, Brown, London 2002.
  • Reader, I Married Him . Little, Brown, London 2006.
  • Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond . Virago, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84408-407-4
  • Mud: Stories of Sex and Love . Short stories. Virago, London 2010.
  • Ignorance . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2012.
  • The Walworth Beauty . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2017

literature

  • Maria Soraya García-Sánchez: Traveling in women's history with Michèle Roberts's novels: literature, language and culture . Lang, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0627-0 .
  • Susanne Gruss: "The Flesh Made Word": Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts , in: Proceedings / Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen . WVT, Trier 2009, ISBN 978-3-86821-179-5 , pp. 57-66.
  • Susanne Gruss: The pleasure of the feminist text: reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-420-2531-8 , Zugl .: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2007.
  • Carolin Roder: Sensuality and Sense: Significant Perception in English Novels of the 20th Century . Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-89741-251-4 , pp. 63-107.
  • Nick Rennison: Contemporary British novelists . Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-21708-3 , pp. 137-140.
  • Beate Neumeier (Ed.): Engendering realism and postmodernism: contemporary women writers in Britain . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2001, ISBN 90-420-1437-7 .
  • Marion Gymnich: Drafts of female identity in the English women's novel of the 20th century . WVT, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-427-6 , Zugl .: Köln, Univ., Diss., 1999, pp. 219-229 and pp. 285-296.
  • Andrea Gutenberg: Possible worlds: Plot and meaning in English women's novels . Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1071-X , Zugl .: Köln, Univ., Diss., 1999, pp. 308-325.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Francesca Segal : Street level . Review, in: Financial Times , April 22, 2017, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Michèle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roberts, Michèle Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bushey (Hertfordshire)