Sylvia Waugh

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Sylvia Waugh (* 1935 in Gateshead ) is a British writer .

Life

Sylvia Waugh went to school in Gateshead and then studied English at the University of Durham . She then worked as an English teacher for 17 years. She is the mother of three children. In 1993 she published her first book, The Mennyms , the first in a five-volume series about a family of rag dolls that come to life after the maker dies . The dolls go to great lengths not to attract attention by adapting to human behavior and living a withdrawn life. The first volume of the Ormingat trilogy was published in 2000 . It is also about beings who live undetected among people. However, these are not rag dolls, but aliens.

Works

  • Die Mennyms , Hanser 1996, ISBN 3-446-17974-7 , The Mennyms , 1993
  • The Mennyms on the Run , Hanser 1996, ISBN 3-446-18567-4 , Mennyms in the wilderness , 1994
  • The Mennyms in the Trap , Hanser 1997, ISBN 3-446-18727-8 , Mennyms under siege , 1995
  • The Mennyms all alone , Hanser 1998, ISBN 3-446-18728-6 , Mennyms alone , 1996
  • Die Mennyms unter Menschen , Hanser 1999, ISBN 3-446-19636-6 , Mennyms alive , 1996
  • Space Race , 2000
  • Earthborn , 2002
  • Who goes home? , 2003

criticism

Gunther Barnewald and Detlef Hedderich write about The Mennyms :

“Sylvia Waugh's book is a strangely crude, but extremely charming mixture of a novel for young people and adults, a fantastic fairy tale story and a touching image of society. (...) In addition, the mennyms are of enviable innocence, have no vices and, with their relative immortality, represent an idealization of bourgeois morality. All this would turn any other book into an annoying accumulation of conservative values, outmoded morals and backward-looking thought processes. Not so with the lovable, purring rag dolls who, with their helpless carelessness, take the reader's heart by storm. The author describes the little adventures of the Mennyms with such inner sympathy and affection that this warmth and emotionality inevitably passes over to the recipient. Also due to the stylistic verve of the author, the reader cannot help but to be fond of this very strange philistine family, no matter how English their moral values ​​and reference systems (drinking tea, Sunday dinner, etc.) are at the same time outdated and eternal. "

Prices

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LinkedIn entry by Sylvia Waugh . Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  2. ^ Author portrait on answers.com . Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ Portrait of the author by Random House . Retrieved September 11, 2013.
  4. ^ Franz Rottensteiner, Michael Koseler (ed.): Werkführer durch die Utopisch-Fantastische Literatur , Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 1989 ff, ISBN 978-3-89048-800-4

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personal data
SURNAME Waugh, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Gateshead