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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels".
Penelope Fitzgerald, nata Penelope Knox ( Lincoln, 17 dicembre 1916 – Londra, 28 aprile 2000 ), è stata una scrittrice britannica, vincitrice del Booker Prize nel 1979 per il romanzo La casa sull'acqua ( Offshore ). Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Opere. 2.1 Biografie. 2.2 Romanzi. 2.3 Racconti. 2.4 Saggistica. 3 Altri progetti. 4 Collegamenti esterni.
24 apr 2024 · Penelope Fitzgerald (born December 17, 1916, Lincoln, England—died April 28, 2000, London) was an English novelist and biographer noted for her economical, yet evocative, witty, and intricate works often concerned with the efforts of her characters to cope with their unfortunate life circumstances.
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Biography. Penelope Fitzgerald was born in Lincoln on 17 December 1916 and was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father, Edmund Knox, was editor of Punch magazine during the 1930s, and her Uncle, Dillwyn Knox, worked on breaking the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Her published non-fiction includes a ...
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28 apr 2000 · Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".
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Penelope Fitzgerald, nata Penelope Knox, è stata una scrittrice britannica, vincitrice del Booker Prize nel 1979 per il romanzo La casa sull'acqua (Offshore).
26 giu 2023 · Penelope Fitzgerald (December 17, 1916 – April 28, 2000) was a novelist, essayist, and biographer widely regarded as one of the greatest British writers of her generation. She began her career later in life — her first successful novel ( The Bookshop, 1978) was published when she was sixty-one — and went on to win the Booker Prize in 1979.
