Norman Lewis (writer)

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Norman Lewis (born June 28, 1908 in Forty Hill , † July 22, 2003 in Saffron Walden , Essex, England) was a British writer who was known for his travelogues .

life and work

Lewis served in World War II and then published his Naples '44 , a field report of Italy's Allied occupation.

After the war he wrote A Dragon Apparent (1951) about Indochina and the travelogue Golden Earth (1952) about Burma . Lewis was fascinated by cultures that had little contact with the modern world, so he wrote the volume An Empire of the East (1993) on his trips to Indonesia and A Goddess in the Stones (1991) on India .

Lewis was married three times, his first wife, Ernestina, was a Swiss-Sicilian, so that Sicilian life, including the Mafia, became one of his more significant subjects. This was reflected in 1964 in The Honored Society - The Mafia Conspiracy Observed , which shows a deeper insight into Sicilian society and people.

Another focus was his aversion to the missionary endeavors in Latin America, especially those of the American evangelicals , which he dealt with in 1988 in his The Missionaries . His 1968 in the Sunday Times published articles about the genocide in Brazil ( Genocide in Brazil ) created such outrage that it establishing the rights organization Survival International came.

Norman Lewis died at the age of 95 in Saffron Walden, UK.

Works

Novels, short stories

  • 1949: Samara
  • 1950: Within the Labyrinth (US edition: 1986)
  • 1953: A Single Pilgrim
  • 1955: The Day of the Fox
  • 1957: The Volcanoes Above Us
  • 1960: Darkness Visible
  • 1962: The Tenth Year of the Ship
    • German edition: The tenth year of the ship. Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1970
  • 1966: A Small War Made to Order
  • 1967: Every Man's Brother
  • 1972: Flight from a Dark Equator
    • German edition: Escape from a dark equator. Construction Berlin, Berlin / Weimar 1975
  • 1974: The Sicilian Specialist
  • 1979: The German Company
  • 1982: The Cuban Passage
  • 1984: A Suitable Case for Corruption (US edition: The Man in the Middle )
  • 1987: The March of the Long Shadows

Travel reports, non-fiction books

  • 1935: Spanish Adventure
  • 1938: Sand and Sea in Arabia
  • 1949: Word Power Made Easy
  • 1951: A Dragon Apparent - Travels in Indo-China
  • 1952: Golden Earth - Travels in Burma
  • 1959: The Changing Sky The Travels of a Novelist
  • 1964: The Honored Society - The Mafia Conspiracy Observed
    • German edition: The honorable society. The history of the mafia. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1965
  • 1978: Naples '44
  • 1984: Voices of the Old Sea
    • German edition: The Voices of the Old Sea. Novel. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-458-16869-9
  • 1985: Jackdaw Cake
  • 1986: A View of the World
  • 1988: The Missionaries
    • German edition: The missionaries. About the destruction of other cultures. An eyewitness report. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-95312-4
  • 1989: To Run Across the Sea
  • 1991: A Goddess in the Stones - Travels in India (Award: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award )
  • 1993: An Empire of the East - Travels in Indonesia
  • 1994: I Came I Saw (expanded edition by: Jackdaw Cake )
  • 1996: The World The World
  • 1998: The Happy Ant-Heap
  • 2001: A Voyage by Dhow
  • 2001: In Sicily
  • 2003: The Tomb in Seville

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julian Evans: Orbituary Norman Lewis. Deeply private writer whose civilized prose bore witness to the world's atrocities and follies. In: The Guardian, July 23, 2003 , accessed May 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Forty Hill
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2003
Place of death Saffron Walden , Essex, England