Duff Cooper Prize
1回登壇
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第26回（1981年） Winner
Victoria Glendinning
ビクトリア・グレンディニング
Bikutoria Gurendinning
別名:
Seebohm
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1937-04-23 （Sheffield）
- 国籍
- United Kingdom
- 言語
- English
- 宗教
- Quaker
- 居住地歴
- near York, England
経歴
- 職業
- biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist
- 活動期間
- 1969年〜2024年
- 所属
- English PEN (honorary vice-president), Royal Society of Literature (vice-president)
- 所属団体
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1982)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millfield School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Somerville College, Oxford | — | Modern Languages | — | — | United Kingdom |
Millfield School
国:
United Kingdom
privately educated
Somerville College, Oxford
Modern Languages
国:
United Kingdom
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions | 伝記 | University of Edinburgh | winner |
| 1983 | Whitbread Prize | Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West | 伝記 | — | winner |
| 1992 | Whitbread Prize | Anthony Trollope | 伝記 | — | winner |
| 1998 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | — | — | British Government | awarded |
| 1995 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | Trinity College Dublin | awarded |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | University of York | awarded |
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1981
対象作品:
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
部門:
伝記
主催:
University of Edinburgh
結果:
winner
Whitbread Prize
1983
対象作品:
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
部門:
伝記
結果:
winner
Whitbread Prize
1992
対象作品:
Anthony Trollope
部門:
伝記
結果:
winner
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1998
主催:
British Government
結果:
awarded
Honorary Doctorate
1995
主催:
Trinity College Dublin
結果:
awarded
Honorary Doctorate
2000
主催:
University of York
結果:
awarded
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
1977年 BiographyBiography of the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen.
writer's lifeliterary influence
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
1981年 BiographyBiography of poet Edith Sitwell. Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Modernismfemale writers
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
1983年 BiographyBiography of writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West. Winner of Whitbread Prize.
homosexualityBloomsbury Group
Anthony Trollope
1992年 BiographyBiography of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. Winner of Whitbread Prize.
Victorian literaturepostal novels
The Butcher's Daughter
2018年 Historical NovelHistorical novel set in the 1530s dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey.
English Reformationdissolution of monasteries
全著作
- A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter (1969)
- Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer (1977)
- Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981)
- Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (1983)
- Rebecca West: A Life (1987)
- The Grown-Ups (1989, novel)
- Trollope (1992)
- Electricity (1995, novel)
- Sons and Mothers (1996, co-edited)
- Jonathan Swift (1998)
- Flight (2002, novel)
- Leonard Woolf: A Biography (2006)
- Raffles and the Golden Opportunity (2012)
- The Butcher's Daughter (2018, novel)
作風・主題
- 文体
- researched biographical stylecritical insight
- 頻出モチーフ
- lives of female writersliterary relationships
評価・遺産
The only person to win the Whitbread Prize for biography twice, making significant contributions to British biographical literature.
豆知識
- Born into a Quaker family.
- Studied Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford.
- Gave birth to four sons before age 28.