Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016)
Författare till The Great Fire
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Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia on January 30, 1931. Before becoming an author in the early 1960s, she went to work for the British Combined Intelligence Services in Hong Kong, was an employee of the British High Commissioner's Office in Wellington, New Zealand, and was a technical visa mer assistant to under-developed countries for the United Nations. Her first book, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories, was published in 1963. Her other books include The Evening of the Holiday, People in Glass Houses, The Bay of Noon, Greene on Capri, Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case, Defeat of an Ideal, and The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples written with her husband Francis Steegmuller. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1980 for The Transit of Venus and the National Book Award for fiction in 2003 for The Great Fire. She died on December 12, 2016 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) Shirley Hazzard's books include "The Evening of the Holiday", "The Bay of Noon", & "The Transit of Venus" (winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction). (Publisher Provided) visa färre
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Verk av Shirley Hazzard
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The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 255 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1931-01-30
- Avled
- 2016-12-12
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Australia (birth)
USA - Födelseort
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Dödsort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Naples, Italy
New York, New York, USA
Capri, Italy
New Zealand
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, UK - Utbildning
- Queenwood School for Girls
- Yrken
- author
intelligence agent - Relationer
- Steegmuller, Francis (husband)
- Organisationer
- United Nations Secretariat
- Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1966)
- Agent
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
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- Verk
- 14
- Även av
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 4,437
- Popularitet
- #5,645
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 93
- ISBN
- 116
- Språk
- 6
- Favoritmärkt
- 14