Margaret Laurence (1926–1987)
Autore di L'angelo di pietra
Sull'Autore
Canadian author Margaret Laurence was born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada, on July 18, 1926. She attended United College (now the University of Winnipeg), receiving her B.A. in 1947. Shortly after graduation, she married Jack Laurence, a hydraulic engineer whose job would often mostra altro take them overseas; the Laurences lived in England for a year, moved to British Somaliland in 1950, and then to Ghana in 1952. It was in Africa that Laurence wrote her first book, A Tree for Poverty, which was a translation of Somali poetry and stories. She also wrote about her experiences in Somaliland in a travel memoir, The Prophet's Camel Bell, and used Africa as a setting for her first fictional work, a novel called This Side Jordan, and a collection of short stories, The Tomorrow Tamers. This Side Jordan received the 1961 Beta Sigma Phi Award for the best first novel by a Canadian. Laurence is best known, however, for her Manawaka books, which are set in Canada. They include The Stone Angel, The Fire Dwellers House, A Bird in the House, A Jest of God, and The Diviners. The latter two books both received the Governor General's Award, in 1967 and 1975, respectively. After living in Africa, England, and several other countries for many years, Laurence returned to Canada in 1974, settling in Lakefield, Ontario, where she remained until her death in 1987. The Energy Probe Research Foundation, an environmental organization for which she served as one of the directors, now sponsors the Margaret Laurence Fund for projects related to the environment and peace, areas in which Laurence was very active during the last decade of her life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Serie
Opere di Margaret Laurence
To Set Our House In Order 2 copie
Happy families 1 copia
Laurence, Margaret Archive 1 copia
Das Glutnest: Roman | Der literarische Klassiker aus Kanada erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung (2023) 1 copia
Un Dieu Farceur 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Laurence, Margaret
- Nome legale
- Laurence, Jean Margaret
Wemyss, Jean Margaret (born) - Data di nascita
- 1926-07-18
- Data di morte
- 1987-01-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Neepawa Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
Somaliland (now Somalia)
Ghana
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
London, England, UK
Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, UK (mostra tutto 8)
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Lakefield, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- United College, Winnipeg (BA|1947|now University of Winnipeg)
- Attività lavorative
- reporter ( [1943])
reporter (The Winnipeg Citizen)
short-story writer
novelist
essayist
Writer-in-Residence (University of Toronto | 1969 | 1970) (mostra tutto 7)
Chancellor (Trent University | 1981 | 1982 | 1983) - Organizzazioni
- Writers' Trust of Canada
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Beta Sigma Phi Award (1960)
Honorary Fellow (University of Winnipeg | 1967)
Order of Canada (Companion | 1972)
Royal Society of Canada (Fellow | 1977)
Molson Prize (1975)
Governor General's Awards (1966, 1974) (mostra tutto 7)
National Historic Person (2016)
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read, January 2020: The Diviners in 1001 Books to read before you die (Febbraio 2020)
June Read: Margaret Laurence in Virago Modern Classics (Luglio 2017)
Recensioni
El ángel de piedra (Spanish Edition) di Margaret Laurence
A sus noventa años, Hagar Shipley, testaruda e inconformista, es todavía una mujer de armas tomar. Vive con su hijo y su nuera, quienes, cansados de cuidarla y a punto de jubilarse, están pensando en trasladarla a una residencia; ella en cambio cree que todavía no ha llegado el momento y mientras espera ese fatídico día, rememora su vida. Criada en un pueblo de las llanuras canadienses e infelizmente casada, Hagar tuvo que ganarse su independencia a pulso en un mundo dominado por las apariencias y las convenciones. Su dureza de carácter, fruto de las difíciles circunstancias que le tocó vivir y del orgullo y la austeridad que le inculcaron, ha condicionado su vida.… (altro)
A sus noventa años, Hagar Shipley, testaruda e inconformista, es todavía una mujer de armas tomar. Vive con su hijo y su nuera, quienes, cansados de cuidarla y a punto de jubilarse, están pensando en trasladarla a una residencia; ella en cambio cree que todavía no ha llegado el momento y mientras espera ese fatídico día, rememora su vida. Criada en un pueblo de las llanuras canadienses e infelizmente casada, Hagar tuvo que ganarse su independencia a pulso en un mundo dominado por las apariencias y las convenciones. Su dureza de carácter, fruto de las difíciles circunstancias que le tocó vivir y del orgullo y la austeridad que le inculcaron, ha condicionado su vida.
Publicada en 1964, El ángel de piedra es un clásico contemporáneo protagonizado por uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura canadiense; una emotiva novela llena de vida que demuestra el talento de Margaret Laurence, escritora con una extraordinaria habilidad para entender el funcionamiento del corazón humano.… (altro)
Publicada en 1964, El ángel de piedra es un clásico contemporáneo protagonizado por uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura canadiense; una emotiva novela llena de vida que demuestra el talento de Margaret Laurence, escritora con una extraordinaria habilidad para entender el funcionamiento del corazón humano.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 5,266
- Popolarità
- #4,738
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 117
- ISBN
- 225
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 37
