Hugh Leonard (1926–2009)
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Playwright and journalist Hugh Leonard was born John Keyes Byrne on November 9, 1926. While working in the civil service during the 1950s, he started using the pseudonym Hugh Leonard because he feared his employers would frown on his writing. He wrote numerous plays during his lifetime including mostra altro Stephen D., The Poker Session, The Patrick Pearse Motel, and Da, which was on Broadway for almost two years. Leonard earned a Tony Award in 1977 for Da. He wrote two autobiographies, Home Before Night (1979) and Out after Dark (1989); adapted numerous classic novels for British television, including Nicholas Nickleby and Wuthering Heights, and wrote The Curmudgeon column for the Sunday Independent. He died after a long illness on February 12, 2009 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Hugh Leonard
Wuthering Heights [1978 TV mini series] — Screenwriter — 7 copie
Strumpet City [DVD] [1980] — Screenwriter — 3 copie
Leonard's last book 3 copie
Chamber Music 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Byrne, John Keyes (born)
- Altri nomi
- Leonard, Hugh
Curmudgeon
Byrne, John Joseph - Data di nascita
- 1926-11-09
- Data di morte
- 2009-02-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- Dublin, Ireland (birth)
Dalkey, Ireland (death)
Manchester, England, UK - Istruzione
- Presentation College, Glasthule
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
screenwriter
civil servant
columnist
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Representing Ireland in my slow-moving project to read a book from every country in the world is dramatist Hugh Leonard. I’d previously read the depressing and close-to-home Da. This play is very different part satire of Irish memory, part satire of nouveaux riche in Ireland, but mostly farce. Almost on the Three’s Company level of people walking in on one another and assuming the worst. Still very funny though, and it hits its point, although the play seems a bit dated.
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- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 422
- Popolarità
- #57,804
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
A wonderful book about life in the Irish countryside. You will fall in love with the finely fleshed characters of Hugh Leonard's well-crafted book.