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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (nata Muriel Sarah Camberg; Edimburgo, 1º febbraio 1918 – Civitella in Val di Chiana, 13 aprile 2006) è stata una scrittrice britannica
7 ago 2023 · Muriel Spark, the author of our August Book of the Month, Loitering with Intent (1981), is one of the distinctive geniuses of English-language fiction in the 20th century. She was a writer of astonishing productivity, writing 22 novels which were varied in subject matter but united by her vision.
Dame Muriel Spark had an active literary life as poet and biographer before she turned, in 1951, to fiction. It was not until 1957, after conversion to Catholicism, that she published her first novel, The Comforters , a book of extraordinary originality that won the applause of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh - not because they were also ...
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Muriel Spark (born February 1, 1918, Edinburgh, Scotland—died April 13, 2006, Florence, Italy) was a British writer best known for the satire and wit with which the serious themes of her novels are presented.
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13 apr 2006 · Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century.
Over her long literary career, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio.
