Sarah Perry
Sarah Grace Perry (born November 28, 1979 in Chelmsford ) is a British writer .
Life
Sarah Perry grew up in a Baptist family . Contact with the outside world was strictly regulated in her childhood, so she listened to a lot of classical music and only came into contact with classical literature and the King James Bible . Perry received her PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway University with Andrew Motion . Her dissertation deals with the part of Gothic in writing by Iris Murdoch .
Her second novel, The Essex Serpent , was nominated for the Costa Book Award in 2016 and was on the longlist of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017 . Her third novel Melmoth is an adaptation of the horror novel Melmoth der Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin from 1820.
Perry was inducted into the Royal Society of Literature as a Fellow in 2018 .
Works (selection)
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After me comes the flood . London: Serpent's Tail, 2014
- After me the flood: Roman . Translation Eva Bonné . Cologne: Eichborn, 2018 ISBN 978-3-8479-0651-3
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The Essex Serpent . London: Serpent's Tail, 2016
- The Essex Serpent: Novel . Translation Eva Bonné . Cologne: Eichborn, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8479-0030-6
- Melmoth . London: Serpent's Tail, 2018
literature
- John Burnside : After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry review - a remarkable debut , The Guardian, June 26, 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Sarah Perry in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sarah Perry in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sarah Perry , website
- Sarah Perry , at Rogers, Coleridge and White, Literature Agency
Individual evidence
- ^ Sarah Perry: Reading lessons of a religious upbringing without modern books . Autobiographical sketch, in: The Guardian, July 1, 2014
- ↑ Arifa Akbar: Fever dreams . Review, in: Financial Times, October 27, 2018, p. L&A 12
- ^ Alison Flood: Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases , in: The Guardian, June 28, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perry, Sarah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perry, Sarah Grace (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelmsford |