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Peter Mayle (1939–2018)

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Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England on June 14, 1939. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter and rose to the executive ranks, but left advertising in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young adults. His educational books including toon meer Where Did I Come From? and What's Happening to Me? His travel memoir, A Year in Provence, received the British Book Awards' Best Travel Book of the Year in 1990 and was adapted into a television mini-series. His other nonfiction books included Toujours Provence, Encore Provence, Provence A-Z, and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew. His fiction books included The Marseille Caper, The Corsican Caper, and A Good Year, which was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Mayle died on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Fotografie: Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen

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Werken van Peter Mayle

Een jaar in de Provence (1990) 5,518 exemplaren
Toujours Provence (1991) 2,360 exemplaren
Encore Provence (1999) 1,344 exemplaren
Een goed jaar (2004) 1,160 exemplaren
Hotel Pastis (1993) 1,155 exemplaren
Ontknoping in de Provence (1997) 909 exemplaren
Een hondenleven (1995) 747 exemplaren
Anything Considered (1996) 747 exemplaren
Het Bordeaux-complot (2009) 660 exemplaren
Acquired Tastes (1993) 596 exemplaren
The Marseille Caper (2012) 340 exemplaren
Mijn Provence (2006) 242 exemplaren
The Corsican Caper (2014) 187 exemplaren
The Diamond Caper (2015) 115 exemplaren
Expensive Habits (1991) 69 exemplaren
Provence from the Air (1994) 54 exemplaren
Man's Best Friend (1984) 53 exemplaren
The Provence Trilogy (1999) 45 exemplaren
Why Are We Getting a Divorce? (1979) 44 exemplaren
How To Be A Pregnant Father (1977) 40 exemplaren
Wicked Willie's Guide to Women (1986) 25 exemplaren
Provence (paintings) (1993) 21 exemplaren
Baby Taming (1978) 20 exemplaren
Sweet Dreams and Monsters (1986) 18 exemplaren
Will I Go To Heaven? (1976) 10 exemplaren
Wicked Willie's Low-down on Men (1987) 8 exemplaren
Postcards from Summer (1996) 6 exemplaren
O Melhor Amigo do Homem (1998) 2 exemplaren
Bor, mm̀or, Provence : regňy (2005) 1 exemplaar
BANA NELER OLUYOR 1 exemplaar
Chi ha rubato Cesanne? (1998) 1 exemplaar
2004 1 exemplaar
Què em passa? 1 exemplaar
Alt har interesse — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Der er ingen ende på Provence — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
3x Provence (2015) 1 exemplaar
Willie's Away (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Honeymoon Book (1983) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Mayle, Peter
Geboortedatum
1939-06-14
Overlijdensdatum
2018-01-18
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Woonplaatsen
Lourmarin, Provence, France
Barbados
The Hamptons, New York, USA
Vaugines, Provence, France
London, England, UK
Ménerbes, Vaucluse, France
Opleiding
Brighton College
Beroepen
advertising copywriter
non-fiction author
memoirist
novelist
travel writer
educational writer
Organisaties
Papert Koenig, Londres, New York (Publicitaire, Directeur créatif, | 19 74)
Ogilvy and Mather, New York (Publicitaire, 19 61)
Shell Oil, Londres (Publiciatire, 1957)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2002)
Korte biografie
Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England. Following World War II, the family moved to Barbados, where his father served as an employee of the British Colonial Office. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at age 16. His first job in 1957 was as a trainee at Shell Oil's London office. He was more interested in advertising than oil, however, and by 1961 had became a copywriter at Shell's ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather, in New York City. Subsequently, he was hired by Papert Koenig Lois and returned to London to head up the creative team there. When the company had financial troubles in the mid-1960s, Mayle and a colleague bought the London operation. They developed the business and after five years, it was bought by BBDO. He then commuted between the USA and the UK as creative director. By 1974, Mayle had tired of advertising and transatlantic commuting, and quit to write full-time. He started off by writing educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people. He also wrote, with illustrator Gray Jolliffe, a series of humorous books about the character Wicked Willie. His most significant career move probably was the decision to relocate to Ménerbes, a village in the Luberon region of southern France, in the late 1980s. There his plans to write a novel were overtaken by the events of life as an expatriate in his new environment. They provided the material for his 1989 book A Year in Provence, an international bestseller that became a media phenomenon. Many more books followed, which were translated in more than 20 languages. Mayle also wrote articles for magazines and newspapers. A Year in Provence was adapted into a highly popular British television series in 1993. Mayle had to move to Amagansett on Long Island, New York, to get away from the thousands of fans and sightseers who showed up at his home in Provence. He later returned to France and a home in Vaugines, also in the Luberon.  The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2002, for "coopération et francophonie."
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This page was formerly split, presumably because the topics written about are very diverse and an assumption was made that they couldn't have been the same author. Works that were previously on #2 had been moved to #1, leaving #2 empty. All the works in the unknowns were related to works in #1, so I unsplit the page.

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De belangrijkste punten met betrekking oto seksuele voorlichting worden in dit boek op een begrijpelijk taal en op een manier die kinderen waarderen uitgelegd.
 
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Leuk, de boeken van Peter Mayle. Doet je weer erg verlangen naar de vakantie.
 
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