Carmen Callil (1938–2022)
Autore di The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Monica Curtin
Opere di Carmen Callil
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Callil, Carmen Thérèse
- Data di nascita
- 1938-07-15
- Data di morte
- 2022-10-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- London, England
- Causa della morte
- leukemia
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England (1964)
Caunes-Minervois, Occitania, France (part-time from|1994) - Istruzione
- Star of the Sea Convent
Loreto Mandeville Hall
Melbourne University (history and literature|BA|1960) - Attività lavorative
- publisher
critic
author - Organizzazioni
- Marks & Spencer (buying assistant)
Hutchinson (1965)
Panther Books (publicity manager|1967-1970)
Ink (1970-1971)
Virago Press (founder | 1973|director|1976|chairman until|1995)
Booker Prize (panel member|1979-1984) (mostra tutto 13)
Chatto & Windus (managing director|1982)
The Hogarth Press (managing director|1982-1994)
Groucho Club, London (founder director|1984-1994)
Channel 4 Television (board member|1985-1991)
Random House (editor-at-large|1994)
Man Booker International Prize (co-judge|2011|resigned in protest)
Extinction Rebellion (supporter) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- International Women's Writing Guild (Distinguished Service Award|1989)
Royal Society of Literature (fellow|2010|Benson Medal|2017)
dame (2017)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Women in War (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 503
- Popolarità
- #49,235
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 1
Theme and Content
Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil are well-known authors. This book includes two hundred novels written since 1950 by English-speaking authors from all over the world.
Implementation
The books begins with an introduction where the two authors explain their intention to show that the modern novel flourishes more than ever before, but that it too has changed during these fifty years between 1950 and 2000. Their intense research led to one hundred and ninety-four own choices for readers of every age and taste, and six novels chosen by their readers. As the two authors are from different countries and they have different preferences, any list of this kind is also somehow personal, but they always have looked for a certain quality, an excitement in the reading and the feeling to want to give this book to someone else to read.
The introduction is followed by a list of titles in order of publication, because the entries are alphabetical under the name of the author. Each recommended novel has one page with descriptions of genre, themes, form, characters, content and the intentions of the author. On the bottom of each page, there you can find information about the author. This main part is followed by lists of Autobiographies and memoirs, Literary biographies, Poetry, Autobiographies and memoirs by novelists chosen in this book, Literary biographies of novelists chosen in this book and several lists of Literary Prizewinners from Bookers Prize to Novel Awards, ending with the Index of Titles.
Conclusion
An entertaining, delightful and interesting guide that leads us through fifty years of modern fiction and books we might know and love and others, new for us, that make us curious and immediately end up on our “want-to-read”-list. A timeless, enjoyable read.… (altro)