Melvyn Bragg
Autore di The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
Sull'Autore
Melvyn Bragg is a British writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of mostra altro which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, the latest being The Book of Books about the King James Bible. In 2015, his book The Adventure of English became a New York Times bestseller. He lives in London and Cumbria. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
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Opere di Melvyn Bragg
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA (1998) 141 copie
Wilfrid (634-709) 1 copia
Johnny and the Dead [VHS] 1 copia
Jane Eyre 1 copia
Velikáni výtvarného umenia 1 copia
Opere correlate
L' ufficiale prussiano (1914) — A cura di, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 411 copie
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
Coleridge Walks the Fells: A Lakeland Journey Retraced (1991) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 12 copie
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crisis Four • White • Void Moon • The Soldier's Return (2000) 3 copie
John Tavener beyond the veil [video recording] (2007) — Editor, Presenter, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bragg, Melvyn
- Nome legale
- Bragg, of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, Baron
- Data di nascita
- 1939-10-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Wigton, Cumbria, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Wigton, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Oxford (Wadham College)
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
television host
novelist
radio host - Relazioni
- Haste, Cate (wife)
Bragg, Marie-Elsa (daughter) - Organizzazioni
- National Academy of Writing
British Broadcasting Corporation
London Weekend Television
ITV
Garrick Club (member) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1968)
Time/Life Silver Pen Award (1970)
WH Smith Literary Award (2000)
Life Peerage (Baron Bragg ∙ 1998)
Norton Medlicott Medal (2009)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 63
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 5,009
- Popolarità
- #5,004
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 92
- ISBN
- 298
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 5