Sue Townsend

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Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend (born April 2, 1946 in Leicester , † April 10, 2014 ibid) was a British writer . She was best known through the book series Adrian Mole .

Life

Townsend dropped out of school at the age of 15 and kept herself afloat with various activities. She got married for the first time on her 18th birthday. She was married to Colin Broadway and had four children. Her writing career began when she joined a writing group at the Phoenix Art Center in Leicester in 1978. Her first play was Womberang and was awarded the Thames Television Bursary .

Townsend suffered from diabetes , which resulted in her going blind in 2001 .

Sue Townsend was a critic of the monarchy and class society in Great Britain. She received various honors and awards; Among other things, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University in Leicester in 2013 .

Townsend died on April 10, 2014 in Leicester after a brief illness.

effect

Sue Townsend is one of the most widely read contemporary English authors. The diary series about the fictional character Adrian Mole was the secular model for the book series Diary of a Pious Chaot by the Christian writer Adrian Plass , which is very popular in the Christian world. This is illustrated by the analogy of the title of the first volume The Secret diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 ¾ clearly.

Works (selection)

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 three quarters ( Eng . The intimate life of Adrian Mole, 13 3/4 years old , Munich: Goldmann 1988)
  • The flowers, in: Leselust. Anthology. Eds. Clare Francis, Ondine Upton. Bertelsmann Club (license Wilhelm Goldmann), Gütersloh 1997 (without ISBN) pp. 201–211 (first radio show The Flowers , Radio Four, 1990)
  • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
  • The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
  • Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major is a collection of the first 3 Adrian Mole books and includes Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians . Published in German under Das Intimleben des Adrian Mole, 13 3/4 years . (published 1999)
  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (German Adrian Moles wilde dreams , Munich: Piper 1995).
  • Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (German Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years , Zurich: Haffmans 2000).
  • The Queen and I (Eng. The Queen and I , Munich: Goldmann 1993)
  • Rebuilding Coventry. A Tale of Two Cities (German : Everything was different in one fell swoop , Munich: Goldmann, 1989)
  • Ghost Children
  • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (German: Adrian Mole and the axis of evil , Munich: Heyne 2006)
  • The Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman (Eng. War of the Snails , Munich: Heyne 2003)
  • The Queen in Hell Close
  • Queen Camilla , 2006 (German Queen Camilla , Munich: Heyne 2008)
  • Number Ten (German Downing Street No. 10 , Berlin: Ed.Tiamat 2006)
  • The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 , 2008.
  • Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years , 2009.
  • The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year , 2012.
    • German: The woman who stayed in bed for a year , translated by Juliane Zaubitzer, Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942989-53-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summer Graduations 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dmu.ac.uk
  2. ↑ The intimate life of Adrian Mole: author Sue Townsend dead - SPIEGEL ONLINE . Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  3. ^ Adrian Plass: Diary of a pious chaotic (original title: The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4 ). Brendow, Moers 1990, ISBN 3-8706-7391-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Townsend, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Townsend, Susan Lillian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2014
Place of death Leicester