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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
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 Spark, née le 1 er février 1918 à Édimbourg et morte le 13 avril 2006 à Florence, est une romancière britannique.
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark. Née: Camberg. Born: February 1, 1918, Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: April 13, 2006, Florence, Italy (aged 88) Notable Works: “The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories” “Memento Mori” “The Comforters” “The Girls of Slender Means” “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (Show more)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
- Muriel Spark
- 1961
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 ...
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scottish poet, essayist, and novelist Muriel Spark (nee Camberg) was educated at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls and Heriot-Watt College. In 1937, she traveled to the country now named Zimbabwe and married Sydney Oswald Spark, from whom she was later divorced.
