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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL ( née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) [1] was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Life. Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Maud (née Uezzell).
Muriel Spark, British writer best known for the satire and wit with which the serious themes of her novels are presented. Among her best-known works are The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, The Mandelbaum Gate, and The Driver’s Seat.
Aug 7, 2023 · Muriel Spark, the author of our August Book of the Month, Loitering with Intent (1981), is one of the distinctive geniuses of English-language fiction in the 20th century. She was a writer of astonishing productivity, writing 22 novels which were varied in subject matter but united by her vision.
Mar 2, 2018 · Muriel Spark's 22 novels are slim and entertaining says Alan Taylor, author and editor of the Scottish Review of Books, but behind the jeux d'esprit lies a fearsome intellect. Here he selects five of her key works.
Dame Muriel Spark had an active literary life as poet and biographer before she turned, in 1951, to fiction. It was not until 1957, after conversion to Catholicism, that she published her first novel, The Comforters , a book of extraordinary originality that won the applause of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh - not because they were also ...
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scottish poet, essayist, and novelist Muriel Spark (nee Camberg) was educated at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls and Heriot-Watt College. In 1937, she traveled to the country now named Zimbabwe and married Sydney Oswald Spark, from whom she was later divorced.
Biography. Muriel Spark was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918 to a Scottish father and an English mother. She was educated at the Edinburgh James Gillespie's School for Girls - an...
Over her long literary career, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio.
Best-known as the author of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', Muriel decided in the 1940s to keep a record of her professional and personal activities, beginning a personal archive that is now one of the largest and most comprehensive held by the National Library of Scotland.
Her 20th novel, 'Reality and Dreams' – about a controlling film director recently made redundant – draws on an eclectic mix of cultural, political and historical environments and contexts including the film industry, the nature of labour and employment, and the distant world of Roman Britain.
