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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. Life [ edit ] Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh , the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Maud (née Uezzell).
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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. Spark was educated in Edinburgh and later spent some years in Central Africa; the latter served as the setting for her first volume of ...
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Apr 17, 2006 · Mon 17 Apr 2006 07.38 EDT. 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 ...
Apr 16, 2006 · Muriel Spark, known for her finely polished, darkly comic prose and for the unforgettable Miss Jean Brodie, one of the funniest and most sinister characters in modern fiction, died Friday at a ...
Apr 15, 2006 · Dame Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels made her one of the most admired British writers of the postwar years, has died in Tuscany, Italian officials said Saturday. She was 88.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Muriel Spark lived in Italy, first in Rome and then in Tuscany, where she died on April 14, 2006. Her many awards include the Observer Story Prize, 1951; the Italia Prize (for radio play), 1962; James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1966; FNAC prize (France), 1987; Bram Stoker Award, 1988; Royal Bank of Scotland-Saltire Society Award, 1988.
Apr 16, 2006 · Muriel Spark, the British author of darkly acerbic novels that portrayed a disquieting world drifting on diabolical undercurrents, died April 13 at a hospital in Florence at the age of 88.
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