Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016)
Auteur van The Great Fire
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Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia on January 30, 1931. Before becoming an author in the early 1960s, she went to work for the British Combined Intelligence Services in Hong Kong, was an employee of the British High Commissioner's Office in Wellington, New Zealand, and was a technical toon meer assistant to under-developed countries for the United Nations. Her first book, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories, was published in 1963. Her other books include The Evening of the Holiday, People in Glass Houses, The Bay of Noon, Greene on Capri, Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case, Defeat of an Ideal, and The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples written with her husband Francis Steegmuller. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1980 for The Transit of Venus and the National Book Award for fiction in 2003 for The Great Fire. She died on December 12, 2016 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) Shirley Hazzard's books include "The Evening of the Holiday", "The Bay of Noon", & "The Transit of Venus" (winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction). (Publisher Provided) toon minder
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Werken van Shirley Hazzard
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The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Medewerker — 255 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1931-01-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-12-12
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Australia (birth)
USA - Geboorteplaats
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Plaats van overlijden
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Naples, Italy
New York, New York, USA
Capri, Italy
New Zealand
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, UK - Opleiding
- Queenwood School for Girls
- Beroepen
- author
intelligence agent - Relaties
- Steegmuller, Francis (husband)
- Organisaties
- United Nations Secretariat
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1966)
- Agent
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
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The eight stories in this 1967 short story collection reflect Hazzard’s own experiences of the time she worked for the United Nations in New York City and they give us an insight into how an organization can become so big that maintaining its ineffectual and often ludicrous organizational machinery becomes almost a goal in its own right while crushing many peoples’ aspirations working for it.
Sharp, poignant, and recognizable when you have worked in a large organization yourself. And also written with a lot of wit which made this into a delightful read.… (meer)
Sharp, poignant, and recognizable when you have worked in a large organization yourself. And also written with a lot of wit which made this into a delightful read.… (meer)
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Mismatched couples, relationships gone sour, partners talking dismissively to each other. Hazzard shows by constantly alternating their perspectives how her characters think they know how others regard them, yet they are completely wrong.
Combined with Shirley Hazzard’s beautiful writing style which is somewhat brighter and feels a bit less weighted down with symbolism than her later novels, every single story in this collection was a joy to read.… (meer)