Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald (nee Knox) (born December 17, 1916 in Lincoln , Lincolnshire , England , † April 28, 2000 in London ) was an English writer .
biography
Penelope Knox came from an educated English middle class . Her father, Edmund George Knox, was editor of Punch magazine from 1932 to 1949 . Her uncles were the theologian and detective writer Ronald Knox , the cryptologist Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox and the theologian and Bible researcher Wilfred Knox .
After completing school, she studied at Oxford University and then worked for the BBC during the Second World War . In 1941 she married the Irish soldier Desmond Fitzgerald and had three children with him. In the 1960s she worked as a lecturer at the Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts , as a teacher at a London school and as a bookstore employee in Southwold , Suffolk .
Fitzgerald's literary activity did not begin until 1975, when he was almost sixty, with a biography of the British painter and leading representative of the Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Burne-Jones . In 1977 she wrote a biography of her father and uncles under the title The Knox Brothers .
1995 appeared to her most well-tester novel, The Blue Flower ( The Blue Flower ) in which they love relationship between Novalis and Sophie von Kühn describes. In 1997 she was the first non-American writer to receive the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for this novel .
Honors
- 1979 Booker Prize for Offshore
- 1998 American National Book Critics Award for The Blue Flower
Works (selection)
- Biographies
- Edward Burne-Jones . A biography . 1975.
- The Knox Brothers . 1977.
- Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. With a Selection of Her Poems . 1984.
- stories
- The Means of Escape. Stories . 2000.
- At Hiruharama . 2000.
- Essays
- A House of Air. Selected Writings , 2005 (US title: The Afterlife ).
- Novels
- The Golden Child . 1977.
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The Bookshop . 1978.
- The bookstore. Translated from the English by Christa Krüger, with an afterword by David Nicholls . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-458-36046-9
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Offshore . 1979.
- A houseboat on the Thames. Translated from the English by Christa Krüger, with an afterword by Alan Hollinghurst . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-458-36157-2
- Human Voices . 1980.
- At Freddie's . 1982.
- Innocence . 1986.
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The beginning of spring . 1988.
- Beginning of spring . Translated from the English by Christa Krüger. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1991. ISBN 3-458-16194-5
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The Gate of Angels . 1990
- The angel gate. Translated from the English by Christa Krüger. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1994. ISBN 3-458-16635-1
- New edition: The College. With an afterword by Philip Hensher . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-458-36285-2
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The blue flower . London: Flamingo, 1995.
- The blue flower . Translated from the English by Christa Krüger. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-458-16940-7
- The blue flower . Munich: Verlag der Süddeutsche Zeitung 2008. (SZ-Bibliothek. 95.) ISBN 978-3-86615-545-9 (With a portrait of the author)
- Letters
- So I Have Thought of You. The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald . Edited by Terence Dooley, with a preface by AS Byatt . Fourth Estate, London 2008. ISBN 978-0-00-713640-7
Film adaptations
- 2017: The Florence Green Bookstore - Director: Isabel Coixet
literature
- Julian Barnes : The Deceptive Appearance of Penelope Fitzgerald . Essay, in: At the window . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016.
- Birgit Kaußner: The women in “The Blue Flower” by Penelope Fitzgerald . Admission thesis, University of Eichstätt 1999.
- Hermione Lee : Penelope Fitzgerald. A life . Chatto & Windus, London 2013. ISBN 978-0-7011-8495-7
- Peter Wolfe: Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald . University Press, Columbia, SC 2004. ISBN 1-570-03561-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Penelope Fitzgerald in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fitzgerald, Penelope |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knox, Penelope (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1916 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lincoln , Lincolnshire , England |
DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 2000 |
Place of death | London |