Melvyn Bragg
Författare till The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
Om författaren
Melvyn Bragg is a British writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of visa mer which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the latest being The Book of Books about the King James Bible. In 2015, his book The Adventure of English became a New York Times bestseller. He lives in London and Cumbria. (Publisher Provided) visa färre
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Verk av Melvyn Bragg
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA (1998) 141 exemplar
Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain - (2) London and the Thames; Devil's Bible [DVD] 1 exemplar
The South Bank Show - Frankenstein; Bookmark - The Further Adventures of Don Quixote [DVD] 1 exemplar
Wilfrid (634-709) 1 exemplar
Johnny and the Dead [VHS] 1 exemplar
Jane Eyre 1 exemplar
Velikáni výtvarného umenia 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor; Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 411 exemplar
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 82 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crisis Four • White • Void Moon • The Soldier's Return (2000) 3 exemplar
An Artist's Story [1974 TV episode] 1 exemplar
John Tavener beyond the veil [video recording] (2007) — Editor, Presenter, vissa utgåvor — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Bragg, Melvyn
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Bragg, of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, Baron
- Födelsedag
- 1939-10-06
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Wigton, Cumbria, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Wigton, England, UK
- Utbildning
- University of Oxford (Wadham College)
- Yrken
- journalist
television host
novelist
radio host - Relationer
- Haste, Cate (wife)
Bragg, Marie-Elsa (daughter) - Organisationer
- National Academy of Writing
British Broadcasting Corporation
London Weekend Television
ITV
Garrick Club (member) - Priser och utmärkelser
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1968)
Time/Life Silver Pen Award (1970)
WH Smith Literary Award (2000)
Life Peerage (Baron Bragg ∙ 1998)
Norton Medlicott Medal (2009)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 63
- Även av
- 14
- Medlemmar
- 5,009
- Popularitet
- #5,004
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 92
- ISBN
- 298
- Språk
- 10
- Favoritmärkt
- 5