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Penelope Lively

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Penelope Lively has written over 18 books for children, and over 15 titles for adults, distinguishing herself on both levels. Among the awards she has received are the coveted Booker Prize for the adult novel "Moon Tiger" (1987) and the Carnegie Medal for the highly acclaimed juvenile work, "The visa mer Ghost of Thomas Kempe" (1973). In Lively's writing, for both adults and children, the recurrent theme is interpreting the past through exploring the function of memory. "My particular preoccupation as a writer is with memory. Both with memory in the historical sense and memory in the personal sense." Beginning her writing career in the early 1970's, Lively wrote exclusively for children for over a decade. Because children have limited memories, devices were used to explore their perceptions of the past, such as ghosts in "Uninvited Ghosts and Other Stories" (1985), and a sampler in "A Stitch in Time' (1976). Lively's first adult novel, "The Road to Lichfield" (1977) was the result of turning to an older audience when she felt inspiration running out. Her adult novels include "Passing On" (1995), the story of a mother's legacy to her children and 'Oleander, Jacarandi: A Childhood Perceived' (1994) which is a memoir of Lively's childhood. Penelope (Low) Lively, born March 17, 1933 in Cairo, Egypt, had a most unusual childhood. She grew up in Cairo with no formal education until age 12, when her family put her in boarding school in England. After earning a B.A. in history at Oxford in 1955, she married Jack Lively, a university professor, whom she calls her most useful critic. They have a son and a daughter, Adam and Josephine. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Penelope Lively

Måntiger (1987) 2,172 exemplar
The Photograph (2003) 1,373 exemplar
How It All Began (2011) 971 exemplar
Consequences (2007) 701 exemplar
Family Album (2009) — Författare — 657 exemplar
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) 504 exemplar
Passing On (1989) 429 exemplar
Heat Wave (1996) 392 exemplar
City of the Mind (1991) 387 exemplar
Making It Up (2005) 353 exemplar
Spiderweb (1998) 332 exemplar
Kleopatras syster (1993) 310 exemplar
The Road to Lichfield (1977) 288 exemplar
Life in the Garden (2017) 278 exemplar
Ett stygn i tidens väv (1976) 238 exemplar
According to Mark (1984) 226 exemplar
A House Unlocked (2001) 226 exemplar
Skölden på vinden (1974) 202 exemplar
Judgement Day (1980) 191 exemplar
Treasures of Time (1979) 148 exemplar
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy (1971) 136 exemplar
Perfect Happiness (1983) 136 exemplar
The Whispering Knights (1971) 128 exemplar
Astercote (1970) 124 exemplar
Going Back (1975) 112 exemplar
A Long Night at Abu Simbel (1995) 106 exemplar
Next to Nature, Art (1982) 99 exemplar
The Driftway (1972) 85 exemplar
The Voyage of QV66 (1978) 78 exemplar
The Revenge of Samuel Stokes (1981) 72 exemplar
Oinbjudna spöken (1984) 66 exemplar
Dragon Trouble (1984) 50 exemplar
One, Two, Three, Jump! (1999) 38 exemplar
Fanny and the Monsters (1982) 31 exemplar
A House Inside Out (1988) 23 exemplar
Kyrkfönstret (1976) 14 exemplar
Good Night, Sleep Tight (1994) 13 exemplar
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1997) 11 exemplar
Picador New Writing: Vol 10 (2001) 11 exemplar
Presence of the Past (1657) 8 exemplar
A Martian Comes to Stay (1995) 7 exemplar
Corruption (1984) 7 exemplar
Fanny's Sister (1976) 6 exemplar
Boy Without a Name (1975) 6 exemplar
Abroad (Penguin Specials) (2013) 4 exemplar
A Martian in the Supermarket (2002) 2 exemplar
Život v zahradě (2019) 1 exemplar
Family Album — Författare — 1 exemplar
Summer Heat 1 exemplar
Judy and the Martian (1993) 1 exemplar
Virago Ghost Stories (1992) 1 exemplar
Anel de Areia 1 exemplar

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Andra namn
Lively, Penelope Low
Födelsedag
1933-03-17
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
Cairo, Egypt
Bostadsorter
Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cairo, Egypt
Utbildning
University of Oxford (St Anne's College)
Yrken
novelist
short-story writer
memoirist
historian
Relationer
Lively, Jack (husband)
Lively, Adam (son)
Organisationer
PEN
The Society of Authors
Priser och utmärkelser
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1989)
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2001)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 2012)
Agent
David Higham Associates
Kort biografi
Novelist and children's writer Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there. She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann's College, Oxford. Penelope Lively contributes regularly to a number of national daily newspapers and literary and educational journals including the Sunday Times, The Observer and the Times Educational Supplement. She has written radio and television scripts and was presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN and a former Chairman of The Society of Authors. She was awarded an OBE in 1989 and a CBE in 2001.

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BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (mars 2015)

Recensioner

12. Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
OPD: 2013
format: 234-page paperback
acquired: April 2023 read: Feb 23-29 time reading: 6:20, 1.6 mpp
rating: 3½
genre/style: Personal Essaystheme: TBR
locations: Mainly Egypt and England, but also New England, Wales and Jerusalem
about the author: English author born Cairo in 1933, who moved to England in 1945.

Very different from what I was expecting. I was hoping for a memoir, but really this is a collection of five personal essays on somewhat random topics - on being 80, on her life in light of the Suez crisis of 1956 (as she grew up in Egypt), on memory, on reading (and a little on writing), and on some personal objects and the thoughts they inspire (which is where the title comes from). It's all written with her sharp intelligent prose, that is it reads beautifully. And, reading her essay on being 80, you can't help but be struck by how mentally sharp she is as a writer.

I think if you are in the right state of mind, this is a wonderful book. I came at it wrong. And so, for me, it didn't amount to much more than some light distracting entertainment.

She does have some lovely quotes:

On writing versus life:
You are looking to supply the deficiencies of reality, to provide order where life is a matter of contingent chaos, to suggest theme, and meaning, to make a story that is shapely where real life is linear.

On memory:
We can make a choice from accessible memories...but we can't choose what to remember. There is something disturbing about the thought that, if some other, hither to unavailable retrieval system were activated, I might find myself with a series of entirely unfamiliar memories - an alternate past that happened, but of which I had ceased to be aware.

On Reading:
What happens to all this information, this inferno of language? Where does it go? Much, apparently, becomes irretrievable sediment; a fair amount, the significant amount, becomes the essential part of us - what we know and understand and think about above and beyond our own immediate concerns. It becomes the life of the mind. What we have read makes us what we are - quite as much as what we have experienced, and where we have been and who we have known. To read is to experience.

On education in an Egyptian expat school:
The Iliad and Odyssey spilled out of the lesson time into the rest of the day; I enacted the siege, the wanderings, as I drifted around our garden, because of course I was there anyway - Penelope - so this must be something to do with me personally. The solipsism of the nine-year-old mind. Except that I was there in the wrong part; Penelope is not as beautiful as Helen, she is described as wise and good, qualities that did not appeal. And Ulysses - red-haired and crafty - is clearly not a patch on brave Hector or glamorous Achilles. So I juggled with the narrative - true to the tradition of reworking Homer, had I known it - airbrushed the tiresome Helen, and set myself up with Achilles. And, to bring things more up to date, equipped him with a Matilda tank and a Bren gun, instead of all that stuff with chariots and spears - the Libyan campaign was raging a hundred miles or so away, remember, in 1941.


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dchaikin | 22 andra recensioner | Mar 2, 2024 |
Kurze Inhaltsangabe
Claudia Hampton - schön, berühmt, unabhängig, im Sterben liegend.

Aber sie bleibt trotzig bis zum Schluss und sagt ihren Krankenschwestern, dass sie eine "Geschichte der Welt ... und dabei auch meine eigene" schreiben wird. Und es ist ihre Geschichte von der Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Doch Claudias Leben ist mit dem anderer Menschen verwoben, und sie muss denen, die sie kannten und liebten, die Möglichkeit geben, zu Wort zu kommen und ihren Standpunkt darzulegen. Da ist Gordon, Bruder und Widersacher; Jasper, ihr unzuverlässiger Liebhaber und Vater von Lisa, ihrer kühlen, konventionellen Tochter; und dann ist da noch Tom, ihre einzige große Liebe, die sie im Ägypten des Krieges gefunden und verloren hat.… (mer)
 
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ela82 | 86 andra recensioner | Feb 21, 2024 |
I was disappointed with this Penelope Lively. The action involves a family of two parents, six children and Ingrid, a long-standing mother's help. There are family secrets. Penelope Lively shows a family where the children are a unit, separate from their parents. They mostly leave home as soon as they can and just occasionally return, with the exception of the oldest, Paul, who struggles to hold down a job. The father is a shadowy figure, mostly in his study writing books. The mother and Ingrid spend all their hours in the kitchen and the garden. For the mother the family is everything. Only Gina, the second eldest, really comes alive at all for me. The adult children have a chapter and an internal monologue but so much of this has no depth.… (mer)
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CarolKub | 40 andra recensioner | Jan 18, 2024 |
very good, 3.5 - but I have to say I'm curious about whom Penelope bases the complete drips of husbands that adorn her novels on! In a chat on this general subject in "How It All Began" one of the characters refers to them as lettuces, and it does seem to fit, though rather old, limp and smelly lettuces. The women are cleaver, interesting and complex and the story carries quite well, as they tolerate their burden of boring men. It seems lovers are the only male characters that are not desperately lame, but in this work even this only applies to some lovers, the character of Jeremy intersects with both groups and definitely deserves segregation to the husband phenotype.

The digs at The Da Vinci Code, including on the cover photo of this edition, are fun.

Although I enjoyed it I doubt I'll ever read it again.
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diveteamzissou | 62 andra recensioner | Jan 1, 2024 |

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