Penelope Lively

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Dame Penelope Lively , DBE (born Penelope Margaret Low in Cairo March 17, 1933 ) is a British writer . She has been writing novels and children's books since 1970 and received the Booker Prize in 1987 for her novel Moon Tiger .

Life

Penelope Low's parents divorced early and she was raised by her father during World War II in Egypt, where she received private tuition until he sent her to boarding school in England in 1946. Then studied history at St. Anne's College of Oxford University . In 1957 she married Jack Lively, who would later become a political professor at Warwick University , with whom she has two children. Jack Lively died in 1998.

In 1970 she published her first children's book, in 1977 her first novel, The Road to Lichfield . Since then she has published nearly 30 children's books, 14 novels, a number of short stories, and autobiographies. She also wrote texts for film and television and worked as a radio presenter.

Penelope Lively was in 1989 and 2001 Officer Commander of the Order of the British Empire , in 2012 it was as part of the 2012 New Year Honors for Dame Commander appointed (DBE). She holds honorary doctorates from Tufts, Massachusetts and Warwick Universities and lives in London.

Works

subjects

Penelope Lively's central theme in almost all of her books is how contemporary culture and society deal with history , the many facets and the consequences of different historical perspectives, for example in her most important novel Moon Tiger , in which she describes a love story in World War II from different perspectives tells.

Novels

  • 1977 The Road to Lichfield
    • One step away from the path, German by Sigrid Ruschmeier, Munich: dtv 1996, ISBN 3-423-20697-7 .
  • 1979 Treasures of Time
  • 1980 Judgment Day
  • 1982 Next to Nature, Art
  • 1983 Perfect Happiness
  • 1984 According to Mark
  • 1987 Moon Tiger
  • 1989 Passing On
    • The wild garden, German by Jörg Toebelmann, Munich: Luchterhand 1995, ISBN 3-630-86848-7 .
  • 1991 City of the Mind
  • 1993 Cleopatra's Sister
  • 1996 Heat Wave
    • Behind the wheat field, German by Isabella Nadolny, Munich: dtv 1998, ISBN 3-423-12515-2 .
  • 1998 Spiderweb
    • Dog roses, German by Susanne Kundmüller-Bianchini, Munich: German 2000, ISBN 3-423-24192-6 .
  • 2003 The Photograph
  • 2007 Consequences
  • 2009 Family Album
  • 2011 How It All Began

stories

  • 1978 Nothing Missing but the Samovar, and other stories
  • 1984 Corruption, and other stories
  • 1986 Pack of Cards, Stories 1978-86
    • German partial edition: The long night of Abu Simbel. German by Isabella Nadolny, Munich: DTV, 1998, ISBN 3-423-12568-3 .
  • 1997 The Five Thousand and One Nights
  • 2005 Making it up

Children's books

  • 1970 Astercote
  • 1971 The Whispering Knights
  • 1972 The Driftway
  • 1973 The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
  • 1974 The House in Norham Gardens
  • 1975 Going Back
  • 1975 Boy Without a Name
  • 1976 A Stitch in Time
    • The house with the swing in the garden , German by Irmela Brender, Erlangen: Boje, 1985, ISBN 3-414-17330-1 .
  • 1976 The Stained Glass Window
  • 1976 Fanny's Sister
    • in: Fanny and the monsters. German by Anneliese Braun, Ravensburg: Reading and Leisure Publishing, 1985, ISBN 3-88884-124-0 .
  • 1978 The Voyage of QV66
  • 1978 Fanny and the Monsters
    • in: Fanny and the monsters. German by Anneliese Braun, Ravensburg: Reading and Leisure Publishing, 1985, ISBN 3-88884-124-0 .
  • 1980 Fanny and the Battle of Potter's Piece
  • 1981 The Revenge of Samuel Stokes
    • A ghost rarely comes alone , German by Irmela Brender, Erlangen: Boje, 1986, ISBN 3-414-84543-1 .
  • 1984 Uninvited Ghosts and other stories
  • 1984 Dragon Trouble
  • 1987 Debbie and the Little Devil
  • 1987 A House Inside Out
  • 1993 Princess by Mistake
  • 1993 Judy and the Martian
  • 1994 The Cat, the Crow and the Banyan Tree
  • 1995 Good Night, Sleep Tight
  • 1995 Two Bears and Joe
  • 1995 Staying with Grandpa
  • 1995 A Martian Comes to Stay
  • 1996 Lost Dog
  • 1998 One, Two, Three ... Jump!
  • 2004 The House in Norham Gardens

Non-fiction

  • 1976 The Presence of the Past: An introduction to landscape history
  • 1994 Oleander, Jacaranda: a Childhood Perceived (autobiography)
  • 2001 A House Unlocked (autobiography)
  • 2013 Dancing Fish and Ammonites (autobiography)

Awards and nominations

  • 1973 Carnegie Medal in Literature for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
  • 1976 Whitbread Book Award (Best Children's Book) for A Stitch in Time
  • 1977 The Road to Lichfield nominated for the Booker Prize
  • 1978 Southern Arts Literature Prize for Nothing Missing but the Samovar, and other stories
  • 1979 Arts Council National Book Award for Treasures of Time
  • 1984 According to Mark nominated for the Booker Prize
  • 1987 Booker Prize and nomination for the Whitbread Book Award (Best Novel) for Moon Tiger

literature

  • Charles Butler: Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8108-5242-X .
  • Kerstin Ebel: "... something that people can't do without": the concepts of memory and the past in the work of Penelope Lively and other contemporary British writers. Heidelberg: Winter 2004, ISBN 3-8253-1579-7 .
  • Christian Kotte: Ethical dimensions in British historiographic metafiction: Julian Barnes, Graham Swift, Penelope Lively. Trier: WVT, 2001, ISBN 3-88476-486-1 .
  • Mary Hurley Moran: Penelope Lively (Twayne's English Authors Series), Twayne, 1993, ISBN 0-8057-7028-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Dalley: If I wn't writing, I'd feel I was atrophying . Interview, in: Financial Times, June 23, 2018, p. L & A3
personal data
SURNAME Lively, Penelope
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Low, Penelope Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt