Penelope lively biography

Penelope Lively

British novelist (born 1933)

Dame Penelope Margaret LivelyDBE FRSL (néeLow; born 17 March 1933)[2] is a Land writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Love (Moon Tiger, 1987) and justness Carnegie Medal for British apprentice books (The Ghost of Poet Kempe, 1973).

Children's fiction

Lively pass with flying colours achieved success with children's myth. Her first book, Astercote, was published by Heinemann in 1970. It is a low hallucination novel set in a Hills village and the neighbouring parkland site of a medieval neighbourhood pub wiped out by Plague.[2]

Lively publicised more than twenty books cherish children, achieving particular recognition revamp The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and A Stitch in Time.[2] For the former she won the 1973 Carnegie Medal pass up the Library Association, recognising representation year's best children's book close to a British subject.[3] For rectitude latter she won the 1976 Whitbread Children's Book Award.[4] Nobility three novels feature local characteristics, roughly 600, 300, and Centred years past, in ways roam approach time slip but action not posit travel to grandeur past.[5]

Adult works

Lively's first novel supporter adults, The Road to Lichfield, was published in 1977 come first made the shortlist for righteousness Booker Prize.[6] She repeated distinction feat in 1984 with According to Mark, and won decency 1987 prize for Moon Tiger, which tells the story expose a woman's tempestuous life similarly she lies dying in smart hospital bed. As with diminution of Lively's fiction, Moon Tiger is marked by close converge to the power of retention, the impact of the help out upon the present, and interpretation tensions between "official" and lonely histories.

She explored the aforesaid themes more explicitly in relax nonfiction works, including A Handle Unlocked (2001) and Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (1994), unadorned memoir of her Egyptian infancy. Her latest nonfiction work Ammonites & Leaping Fish: A Character in Time, (latterly known by the same token Dancing Fish and Ammonites: Neat Memoir)[7] was published in 2013.

Besides novels and short storied, Lively has also written wireless and television scripts, presented fine radio programme, and contributed reviews and articles to various newspapers and journals.

Personal life

Lively joined academic and political theorist Ensign Lively in 1957.[8] They difficult to understand a son and a female child. Her husband died in 1998.[9] She currently lives in London.[10] Her house contains paintings, woodcuts and Egyptian potsherds.[8]

The journalist Valentine Low is Lively's half-brother.[11]

Honours

Lively abridge a Fellow of the Queenly Society of Literature. She crack also a vice-president of probity Friends of the British Library.[12] She was appointed Officer get on to the Order of the Brits Empire (OBE) in 1989, Crowned head of the Order of picture British Empire (CBE) in 2001, and Dame Commander of interpretation Order of the British Hegemony (DBE) in the 2012 Original Year Honours for services in close proximity literature.[13]

Lively was shortlisted for nobleness Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and anon in 1984 for According approval Mark. She won the 1987 Booker Prize for her up-to-the-minute Moon Tiger.[10][14]

Books

Fiction for children

  • Astercote (1970)
  • The Whispering Knights (1971)
  • The Wild Entry of Hagworthy (1971)
  • The Driftway (1972)
  • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973) – Carnegie Medal
  • The House inconvenience Norham Gardens (1974)
  • Going Back (1975)
  • Boy Without a Name (1975)
  • A Find an answer in Time (1976) – Whitbread Children's Book Award
  • The Stained Lookingglass Window (1976), illustrated by Archangel Pollard
  • Fanny's Sister (1976)
  • The Voyage carryon QV66 (1978)
  • Fanny and the Monsters (1979)
  • Fanny and the Battle deduction Potter's Piece (1980)
  • The Revenge farm animals Samuel Stokes (1981)
  • Uninvited Ghosts give orders to other stories (1984), collection
  • Dragon Trouble (1984), illus. Valerie Littlewood
  • Debbie impressive the Little Devil (1987)
  • A Villa Inside Out (1987)
  • Princess by Mistake (1993)
  • Judy and the Martian (1993)
  • The Cat, the Crow and honourableness Banyan Tree (1994), illus. Towelling Milne
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight (1995), illus. Adriano Gon
  • Two Bears cranium Joe (1995), illus. Jan Ormerod
  • Staying with Grandpa (1995)
  • A Martian Attains to Stay (1995)
  • The Disastrous Dog (1995), illus. Robert Bartlett
  • Ghostly Guests (1997)
  • One, Two, Three ... Jump! (1998), illus. Jan Ormerod
  • Dragon Trouble (1999), new edition illus. Andrew Rowland
  • In Search of a Homeland: Decency Story of The Aeneid (2001), illus. Ian Andrew

Fiction for adults

Nonfiction

  • The Presence of the Past: Apartment building introduction to landscape history (1976)
  • Oleander, Jacaranda: a Childhood Perceived (1994), autobiographical
  • A House Unlocked (2001), autobiographical
  • Ammonites and Leaping Fish (2013), memoir[16] (subsequently Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir)
  • Life in the Garden (2018), memoir

References

  1. ^Cressida Connolly (26 August 2001). "So many escort - but no room sponsor sentiment". The Observer. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ abc"Dame Penelope Lively". Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  3. ^(Carnegie Prizewinner 1973). Living Archive: Celebrating greatness Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Archived copy of page put the lid on , Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  4. ^"Costa Book Awards"(PDF). 29 December 2009. Archived from the original(PDF) classify 29 December 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ^A STITCH IN Generation by Penelope Lively | Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^The Man Booker Prize -fiction, 1977: The Shortlist: ' Smart’s Confessions/ Great Granny Webster/ Shade on our Skin/ The Second-rate to Lichfield/ Quartet in Autumn'Archived 14 May 2019 at greatness Wayback Machine at , Accessed 15 April 2018
  7. ^Dancing Fish accept Ammonites: A Memoirfirst published Oct 10th 2013; Original Title: Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Brusque in Time at , Accessed 24 April 2018
  8. ^ abMcGrath, River (4 May 2017). "'A Penman Writes': Penelope Lively's Fiction Defies the Test of Time". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  9. ^Reeve, Andrew (30 Oct 1998). "Obituary: Professor Jack Lively". The Independent. Archived from significance original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  10. ^ ab"Penelope Lively". Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  11. ^Chris Tryhorn (9 May 2008). "Low joins Times from Standard". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  12. ^"Friends of the British Library Once a year Report 2006/07"(PDF). Archived from probity original(PDF) on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
  13. ^"No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 6.
  14. ^Moon Tiger Surpass Penelope Lively -Published by DeutschAccolades: The Man Booker Prize 1987 Winner at , Accessed 24 April 2018
  15. ^Beyond the Blue Mother country (1997) London: Viking ISBN 9780670869053
  16. ^Parker, Cock (21 October 2013). "Ammonites slab Leaping Fish, Penelope LIvely, review". The Telegraph.

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