Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell (* 1962/63 in Bournemouth , England ) is an English author and curator .
Life
Bakewell went on a world tour with her parents as a five-year-old, which after two years temporarily ended in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . Her father worked there as a bookseller and her mother as a librarian. The family completed the second part of the world tour as a backpacker through the Pacific and America.
Bakewell studied at the University of Essex philosophy , a doctoral thesis on Martin Heidegger gave up again. She worked in bookstores for years and began as a curator at the Wellcome Library in London in the early 1990s . There she was responsible for early printed books and also published on topics from the early modern period . Another result of her work at the Wellcome Library was her first novel, The Smart, about a forgery trial in the 18th century.
Another work by Bakewell is based on the life of the Danish adventurer and seaman Jørgen Jürgensen . Her work on the life of Montaigne was awarded and translated into German.
Bakewell lives in Clapham , south London, and occasionally works for the National Trust catalogs .
Prizes and awards
- 2010: the British Duff Cooper Prize for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer .
- 2011: the US National Book Critics Circle Award for the same book.
- 2018: Windham – Campbell Literature Prize in the Non-Fiction category.
Fonts
- 1994: A bibliography of Joannes Sambucus (1531-1584) . Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies, London.
- 2001: The Smart: The true Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers . Chatto & Windus, London 2001, ISBN 0-70117109X . Vintage Books, London 2002.
- 2005: The English Dane . Chatto & Windus, London. Vintage Books, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-09-943806-9 .
- 2010: How To Live or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer , Chatto & Windus, London, Vintage Books 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-948515-5 .
- 2012: German by Rita Seuß: How should I live? or The Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Answers . CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-63969-2 .
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At the Existentialist Café - Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails . Chatto & Windus, London 2016, ISBN 978-0701186586
- 2016: German by Rita Seuß: The Existentialist Café - Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails . CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406697647 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bakewell, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English author and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bournemouth , England |