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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.
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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.
Apr 9, 2024 · 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.
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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 ...
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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.
Apr 17, 2006 · All the great heroines created by Dame Muriel Spark, who has died in Florence aged 88, enunciate with the unmistakable, perfectly pitched voice of She Who Can Do No Wrong, immaculately hatted and...
Apr 13, 2006 · Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century.
