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Penelope Fitzgerald won the prize in 1979 with her second novel Offshore, which was inspired by the period of her life she spent living on a barge – during which time her home sank twice into the river. In a post-win interview, when asked about what she would do with her prize money, Fitzgerald said: ‘If you’ve been downed twice in a boat ...
La librería, de Penelope Fitzgerald, es un libro cotidiano ambientado en un pueblo costero del este de Inglaterra, a finales de los años 1950. En él, Florence Green, una viuda, decide comprar el edificio más viejo y deteriorado del pueblo, Old House, para abrir una librería. Se trata de un edificio que no interesa a nadie, hasta que la ...
1 de nov. de 2013 · What is striking about Fitzgerald's story is that her professional experience was seamless and well-considered before she met Desmond; it starts to move again very efficiently in the very last ...
Penelope Fitzgerald compone una comedia exquisita e incalificable, mezcla de misterio clásico, novela histórica y sátira adictiva. Un museo londinense expone por primera vez los tesoros de Garamantia, una antigua civilización del norte de África, y los visitantes hacen colas eternas para ver las dos piezas más célebres de la exposición ...
27 de abr. de 2022 · Penelope Fitzgerald's papers acquired by British Library. Curator says documents, which include unpublished diaries and notebooks for the author’s first novel, are ‘a great source to be mined ...
4 de dic. de 2014 · by Penelope Fitzgerald. Mariner, 144 pp., $12.00 (paper) Just before Penelope Knox went down from Oxford with a congratulatory First in 1938, she was named a “Woman of the Year” in Isis, the student paper. She wrote a few paragraphs about her university career, dwelling solely on what had gone wrong. She’d come to Oxford expecting poets ...
31 de jul. de 2017 · Lucy Scholes on the highs, lows and package tours of Booker-prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald. ‘Fitzgerald’s life can only be attributed to the caprices of fate.’. When Penelope Fitzgerald won the Booker for Offshore in 1979, she spent the prize money on a trip to New York for herself, her daughter Tina, and Tina’s husband ...
