Rose Tremain

Lady Rose Tremain DBE , FRSL (* 2. August 1943 in London as Rose Thomson ) is a British writer . She lives with the biographer Richard Holmes in Norfolk .

Tremain studied at the Sorbonne and completed her English studies at the University of East Anglia in 1967 . There she was a lecturer in creative writing from 1988 to 1995. She published novels and short stories, but also wrote radio plays and screenplays for television films. Her works have received numerous awards. Her novel Zeit der Sinnlichkeit was filmed in 1995 with Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Grant and Meg Ryan ( Restoration ).

Awards

• 2013: Nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Merivel .
• 2008: Orange Prize for Fiction for The Road Home (The Long Way Home)
• 2004: Nomination for the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Color (The Color of Dreams)

Works

Stories and novels

• Sadler's Birthday , 1976
• Letter to Sister Benedicta , 1978
• The Cupboard , 1981
• Journey to the Volcano , 1985
• The Swimming Pool Season , 1985
• Restoration , 1989 ( The King's Fool , 1991, translation by Elfie Deffner. ISBN 3-502-10744-0 )
• Sacred Country , 1992 ( The Conversion , 2003, translation by Elfie Deffner. ISBN 3-423-13106-3 )
• The Way I Found Her , 1997 ( How I Found Her : Novel from 17th Century England , 1997, translation by Gerhard Beckmann. ISBN 3-502-11907-4 )
• Music and Silence , 1999 ( Melodie der Stille , 2000, translation by Elfie Deffner. ISBN 3-446-19955-1 )
• The Color , 2003 ( The color of dreams , translation by Christel Dormagen, insel taschenbuch, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-458-35702-5 )
• The Road Home , 2007 ( The long way home , translation by Christel Dormagen, insel taschenbuch no. 4037, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-458-35737-7 )
• Trespass , 2010 ( The inevitable day , 2011, translation by Christel Dormagen, insel taschenbuch no. 4220, ISBN 978-3-518-46220-1 )
• Merivel: A Man of His Time . ISBN 978-0-7011-8520-6
  • German goodbye, Sir Merivel . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-17563-6
• The American Lover . Chatto & Windus 2014
• The Gustav Sonata , 2016, ISBN 9781784740030
  • dt. And so it started . Translation by Christel Dormagen, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17684-8

Short stories

• The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories , 1984
• The Garden of the Villa Mollini and Other Stories , 1987
• Evangelista's Fan and Other Stories , 1994 ( Evangelista's subjects and Other Stories , 1997, translation by Elfie Deffner.)
• The Darkness of Wallis Simpson , 2005

Awards (selection)

• 1994 Prix ​​Femina Étranger ( Restoration or French Royaume interdit ).
• 1999 Whitbread Book Award (Novel of the Year for Music and Silence )
• 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction ( The Road Home )

Web links

• Literature by and about Rose Tremain in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Rose Tremain in Suhrkamp and Insel Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.suhrkamp.de/rose-tremain/leben-und-werk_994.html