Olivia Manning

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Olivia Mary Manning , married as Olivia Smith (born March 2, 1908 in Portsmouth , † July 23, 1980 in Ryde, Isle of Wight ), was a British writer.

life and work

Olivia Manning was born in Portsmouth in 1908 and grew up in Northern Ireland. After training as a painter at the Portsmouth School of Art, she moved to London and worked as a writer. Her first novel under her own name, The Wind Changes , was published in 1937. During the Second World War, she and her husband fled to Greece and then to Jerusalem. She processed her time there until 1945 and her experiences in the British protectorate of Palestine in her first big success School for Love in 1951 (German only in 2013 as a farewell to innocence ).

Manning's best-known work is Fortunes of War , which consists of two trilogies ( The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy - German: In the River of Time (with the parts The Wealth and City without Morals ), Like Leaves in the Wind and On New Paths ); it records the war experiences of a group of English people who wandered back and forth between Romania , Greece , Egypt and Palestine during World War II.

Parts of the content were filmed under the title Goodbye in Cairo with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in the leading roles.

literature

  • Neville and June Braybrooke: Olivia Manning. A life . Chatto & Windus, London 2004, ISBN 0-7011-7749-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Manning, Olivia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manning, Olivia Mary (full name); Smith, Olivia (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1980
Place of death Ryde, Isle of Wight