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Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Muriel Spark (born February 1, 1918, Edinburgh, Scotland—died April 13, 2006, Florence, Italy) was a British writer best known for the satire and wit with which the serious themes of her novels are presented.
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 travelled widely, and lived in Italy until her death. She received several honorary degrees, some in Oxford and London, and many in Scotland, and was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Aug 19, 2010 · Muriel Spark published twenty-two novels in her lifetime, in spite of beginning relatively late at the age of thirty-nine, and at least half of them are classics by the only criterion that really matters—they invite and reward repeated reading.
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.
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