Diana Athill (1917–2019)
Autor/a de Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir
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Diana Athill was born in England on December 21, 1917. She was educated at Oxford University. During World War II, she as a researcher with the BBC. She worked as an editor at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch. Athill started writing autobiography in her early 40s. Her memoir, Instead of a mostra'n més Letter, was published in 1962. Her other memoirs included After a Funeral; Make Believe; Alive, Alive Oh!; Stet; Yesterday Morning; and A Florence Diary. Somewhere Towards the End won a Costa Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works included a volume of short stories entitled An Unavoidable Delay and a novel entitled Don't Look at Me Like That. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2009. She died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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- Data de naixement
- 1917-12-21
- Data de defunció
- 2019-01-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Highgate, London, England, UK
Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, England, UK - Educació
- Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (AB|English|1936)
- Professions
- literary editor
novelist
memoirist
short story writer
translator - Relacions
- Reckord, Barry (lover)
- Organitzacions
- BBC Overseas Service
Allan Wingate
Andre Deutsch (founding director ∙ 1952-1993) - Premis i honors
- OBE, 2009
- Biografia breu
- Diana Athill was born in London and was raised at Ditchingham Hall in Norfolk. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1939. As World War II began she was hired as a researcher for the BBC, where she stayed through the end of the war.
After the war, Athill joined her friend André Deutsch in establishing his first publishing firm Allan Wingate, where she served as an editor. Five years later, in 1952, she was a founding director of Deutsch’s next publishing company, which bore his name. At André Deutsch, Athill worked closely with many authors, including Jean Rhys, John Updike, Mordecai Richler, Brian Moore, V.S. Naipaul, and Molly Keane.
After a 50-year career in publishing, Athill retired from André Deutsch in 1993 at the age of 75. She wrote two volumes of short stories as well as a novel. However, she was best known for her autobiographical works and memoirs.
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Somewhere Towards the End de Diana Athill
Delightful and succint insights and reflections from a woman reaching her late 80s. She has a positive outlook, intentionally so, accepting of the dwindling energy and appetites of age, but finding plenty still to take satisfaction in. If anything, she’s inclined to be a bit complacent or indulgent of her lot (smug, she says) but her poised and spirited phrases and descriptions are a joy: arresting, stimulating, and comforting in their graceful and candid delineation of our common humanity. The prose has a lush feel, and yet is ultimately rather thin in that not much really takes hold (as I was able to note on an almost-immediate reread, returning for more depth than was actually to be found). But dipping in to any page will bring pleasure.… (més)
I have enjoyed all of Diana Athill's books and hope she will publish her correspondence with Jean Rhys. This book is more of a hodge-podge than the others, but if you're still writing lively, honest prose at age 100, who cares?
Great read and insight into the mind and life of a honest London publisher/editor
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- Obres
- 15
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 2,246
- Popularitat
- #11,417
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 102
- ISBN
- 103
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 8