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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The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 97 exemplar
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- 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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Diskussioner
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2015; LIVELY & ISHIGURO i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (mars 2015)
Recensioner
The Road to Lichfield av Penelope Lively
4.5 stars- just wonderful. Penelope’s extraordinary prose makes everyday events glow with reality and importance. As usual her lead character, Annie, is someone you wish you knew. I guess a couple of things Annie does are odd and don’t quite ring true with the rest of her character- one is her choice of husband. The other will be clear to you upon finishing.
A tale from the early 1970s with a supernatural element. Lucy who is about 12 years old goes to stay with her aunt for the summer in a country village. She hasn't been back for seven years so her expectations that childhood friends would have remained the same are overturned when the two girls she played with have become horse-mad and are uninterested in anything else, and the boy Kester is initially standoffish. However, she and Kester do eventually reinvent their friendship but by then a subtle thread of disquiet has crept into village life with the discovery by the vicar of an old ritual involving a 'dance' by men and boys dressed in stag antlers and masks. Despite the grumbles by older residents who oppose its return, and hint at dire consequences - the Wild Hunt of folklore is alluded to early on - rehearsals begin for the forthcoming village fete, and the boys begin to turn on Kester who is an outsider now that he goes to a grammar school and doesn't want to continue the family tradition of working as a blacksmith, his uncle being the last of a dying breed in the whole district.
Despite the statement on the back cover that this is suitable for children of ages 11 - 14, it reads as being for a younger age group, possibly because the character relationships belong to a more 'innocent' age when girls and boys of that age could be friends without any sexual overtones. Also, although the countryside is well evoked and there is the odd moment of supernatural tension, the potential of what could be a dangerous and murderous intent by the boys in the vein of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, is never allowed to become really threatening and even the supernatural element is defused in the finale so it isn't really disturbing and compared to modern day YA fiction such as 'The Hunger Games' series or the 'Noughts and Crosses' books or even 'His Dark Materials' comes across as more suitable for the 8 -10 year age range.… (mer)
Despite the statement on the back cover that this is suitable for children of ages 11 - 14, it reads as being for a younger age group, possibly because the character relationships belong to a more 'innocent' age when girls and boys of that age could be friends without any sexual overtones. Also, although the countryside is well evoked and there is the odd moment of supernatural tension, the potential
Glyn, an historical landscape academic, find an old photograph of his wife (Kath and now dead) showing her holding hands with Nick, the husband of his sister-in-law. The novel spends time with Glyn as he processes this and with Elaine, the sister-in-law, a celebrated landscape gardener. The reader also spends time with Nick, portrayed as child-like, and Elaine and Nick's daughter. The themes revolve around what we know about people, how little attention some people give to people they say we love and how focussing on a career can be easier than focussing on relationships. Glyn meets people who knew Kath and finds a different woman to the one he knew. There are landscape features and gardening too.… (mer)
While this was only about 200 pages, it felt longer to me.
The narrator, Claudia, is on her death bed, and tells us she will write a history of the world. It is mainly HER history, of a life (and love) with her brother, Gordon, throughout their teen years and then later. She is jealous of his wife. However, she meets a man who is the love of her life.
The story goes back and forth, highlights times of war and peace, and is a reflection of her life and loves.
This has received critical acclaim, but it wasn't for me.… (mer)
The narrator, Claudia, is on her death bed, and tells us she will write a history of the world. It is mainly HER history, of a life (and love) with her brother, Gordon, throughout their teen years and then later. She is jealous of his wife. However, she meets a man who is the love of her life.
The story goes back and forth, highlights times of war and peace, and is a reflection of her life and loves.
This has received critical acclaim, but it wasn't for me.… (mer)
Listor
A Novel Cure (1)
Spirit of Place (1)
1970s (1)
Which house? (1)
Women in War (1)
AP Lit (1)
Gardening (1)
Unmarried women (1)
TLS 6011 (1)
Booker Prize (3)
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