TH White

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TH White

Terence Hanbury White (born May 29, 1906 in Bombay , British India , † January 17, 1964 in Piraeus , Greece ), known internationally as TH White , was a British writer who temporarily used the pseudonym James Aston .

life and work

Born in Bombay, where his father a member of the Indian Civil Service was TH White, however, spent the school in Cheltenham ( Gloucestershire ), Great Britain, and made 1928 his degree at Queens' College in Cambridge . White attributed his lifelong affinity to spanking to the ailments in his school days .

From 1930 to 1936 he was an English teacher at a state primary school. In his free time he dealt with the living conditions in the Middle Ages , which also drew his attention to the legends of King Arthur . From 1936 on, TH White devoted himself entirely to writing; his book England have my bones had recently achieved initial literary successes. This went hand in hand with his retreat to the channel island Alderney , on which he lived until his death.

TH White was best known for The Once And Future King ( The King of Camelot ) , an adaptation of the 15th century novel Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory . The four parts of this work appeared in each case as individual volumes in the years 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1958. The first part of The Sword in the Stone formed the basis for the Walt Disney - Cartoons adaptation The Sword in the Stone . Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe worked on the material for their musical Camelot (1960).

In addition, TH White also wrote poems, adventure and detective stories as well as books about hunting and other sports. White's attempts as a falconer , in which he tried to tame a hawk in an ancient way in 1936 and about which his book The Goshawk was first published as a personal experience report in 1951 (2019 as The Habicht ), are also addressed in H for Habicht by Helen Macdonald .

Posthumously was America At Last published, in which he a book tour in the United States had processed. Returning from this book tour, TH White died in January 1964 at the age of 57 on board a ship in the port of Piraeus.

The archive of "The TH White Collection" can be found in the " University of Texas at Austin " in the "Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center".

Award

  • 2014: Retro Hugo Award for The Sword in the Stone , The Sword in the Stone from 1938

bibliography

The Once and Future King / The King on Camelot
  • 1 The Sword in the Stone (1938)
  • 2 The Witch in the Wood (1939, also as The Queen of Air and Darkness )
  • 3 The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
  • 4 The Candle in the Wind (1958)
  • 5 The Book of Merlyn (1977)
  • The Once and Future King (1958, collective edition from 1–4)
    • English: The King on Camelot. 2 vols. Klett-Cotta (Hobbit Press), 1976:
  • The Once and Future King (1996, collective edition of 1–5)

Audiobooks (all read by Jochen Malmsheimer ):

Novels
  • Dead Mr. Nixon (1931, with R. McNair Scott)
  • Darkness at Pemberley (1932)
  • First Lesson (1932, as James Aston)
  • They Winter Abroad (1932, as James Aston)
  • Farewell, Victoria (1933)
  • Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
    • English: The secret of Liliput. List, 1951.
    • German: Schloss Malplaquet or Lilliput in exile. Diederichs, 1981, ISBN 3-424-00720-X .
  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo (1947)
    • English: Mr White drifts to Dublin on the raging Liffey. A survival novel. Diederichs, 1984, ISBN 3-424-00783-8 .
  • The Master: An Adventure Story (1957, children's book)
Poetry
  • Loved Helen and Other Poems (1929)
  • The Green Bay Tree; or, The Wicked Man Touches Wood (1929)
  • Verses (1962)
  • A Joy Proposed (1980)
Collections
  • Earth Stopped: or Mr. Marx's Sporting Tour (1934)
  • Gone to Ground (1935)
  • The Maharajah and Other Stories (1981)
  • Variant: The Maharajah & Other Stories (1981)
Short stories
  • Shining Hat at Tarring Neville (1935)
  • Madame Mim (1938)
  • The Unicorn (1939)
    • German: The unicorn. 1985.
Others
  • England Have My Bones (1936)
  • Burke's Steerage; or, The Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes (1938)
  • The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Period (1950)
  • The Goshawk (1951)
  • The Scandalmonger (1952)
  • The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
  • America at Last: The American Journal of TH White (1965)
Letters
  • The White / Garnett Letters (1968, edited by David Garnett )
  • Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between TH White and LJ Potts (1982, edited by Francois Gallix)
translation
  • The Book of Beasts, Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century (1954)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Falcke: TH White: "The Habicht" - From the high art of falconry , deutschlandfunk.de, broadcast and accessed on May 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME White, TH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Terence Hanbury (full name); Aston, James (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1964
Place of death Piraeus