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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.
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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (nata Muriel Sarah Camberg; Edimburgo, 1º febbraio 1918 [1] – Civitella in Val di Chiana, 13 aprile 2006) è stata una scrittrice britannica .
9 apr 2024 · 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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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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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.
2 mar 2018 · This year marks the centenary of the birth of the novelist, poet and essayist Muriel Spark, a singular voice of 20th century literature. Her 22 novels are slim and entertaining says Alan Taylor, author of Appointment in Arezzo, but beneath the jeux d'esprit lies a fearsome intellect. Here he selects five of her key works.
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. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
