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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. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [2] The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". [3]
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- April 28, 2000
- December 17, 1916
- The Bookshop.
- Offshore.
- The Blue Flower.
- The Beginning of Spring.
Jun 26, 2023 · Penelope Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest British novelists: in 2008, The Times listed her as one of “the 50 greatest British writers since 1945,” and in 2012, The Observer placed The Blue Flower among the “ten best historical novels.”
The repeated phrase when people discuss Penelope Fitzgerald’s work, not by laymen or by students, but by critics and intellectuals—A. S. Byatt, Julian Barnes—is how does she do it? The touch is so light, yet so confident.
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. Although she did not begin writing until she ...
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Penelope Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels, including Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, and The Blue Flower. She wrote nearly fifty pieces for the LRB before her death in 2000 on subjects including Stevie Smith, Radclyffe Hall, Charlotte Mew, Anne Enright and Edward White Benson.
Penelope Fitzgerald. Described by the Guardian as ‘one the most distinctive and elegant voices in contemporary British fiction’, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the twentieth-century’s most acclaimed British novelists.
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