Vyvyan Holland

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Vyvyan or Vivian Holland (born November 3, 1886 as Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde in Chelsea (London) , † October 10, 1967 ) was a British writer and translator .

Life

Vyvyan Holland was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd . His name and his older brother, Cyril Holland (1885-1915), were the names of the two participants in Oscar Wilde's dialogue The Decay of Lying ( The Decay of Lying ajar).

In 1895, after her husband was convicted and imprisoned for homosexuality , Constance Lloyd went with her sons to France and later to Switzerland . In 1898 she took the maiden name of her mother, Holland , for herself and her sons . Vyvyan was spelled Vivian from then on , the first name Oscar Beresford dropped.

In 1898, after his mother's death, Vyvyan Holland returned to London . In 1902, at the age of 16, he discovered the truth about his father through the book Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship by Robert Sherard . He was deeply ashamed and decided never to read his father's works. During his law school he became unfaithful to his resolve and began to admire his father.

In 1919, after participating in the First World War , Vyvyan Holland became a writer and translator for French, Spanish, Italian and German. His older brother, Cyril Holland, had died in 1915. Among other things, he also translated some of his father's works.

During the Second World War he was a translator for the BBC. In 1943 he married the Australian Thelma Besant . In 1945 their son Merlin Holland was born. In 1947 he moved to Australia to give lectures on his father there and in New Zealand . In 1954, on the hundredth birthday of his father, he published his memoirs under the title Son of Oscar Wilde (German Oscar Wilde's son tells ). In the 1950s and 1960s he worked as a consultant for several films, including a. for the biographical film about Oscar Wilde The Man with the Green Carnation ( The Trials of Oscar Wilde , 1960) and the film adaptation of the novel Moll Flanders (with Kim Novak , 1965).

Works

  • Son of Oscar Wilde , 1954, ISBN 1841190861 (German heir of a judgment - Oscar Wilde's son narrated , translated by Inge Lehne, 1955)
  • An Explosion of Limericks , London 1967, ISBN 0304919691

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personal data
SURNAME Holland, Vyvyan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holland, Vivian; Wilde, Vyvyan Oscar Beresford (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelsea
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1967