Penelope Fitzgerald

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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
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.
  • The Bookshop . 1978.
  • Offshore . 1979.
  • Human Voices . 1980.
  • At Freddie's . 1982.
  • Innocence . 1986.
  • The beginning of spring . 1988.
  • 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
  • The blue flower . London: Flamingo, 1995.
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

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

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