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Margaret Drabble
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Margaret Drabble is a British novelist, screenwriter, literary critic, and biographer born in Sheffield in 1939. She has been active since 1963 and writes in English. Drabble was educated at Newnham College and resides in Sheffield. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Literature. Her notable works include *The Oxford Companion to English Literature* and *Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition*.
Drabble has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She is married to Clive Swift and Michael Holroyd, and her married name is Margaret Swift. She has a child named Adam Swift and a sibling named A. S. Byatt. Drabble has a medical condition of stuttering.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 71
Top works
- עידן הקרח
- The Oxford companion to English literature
- Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
- Reḥayim
- ʻIr shel zahav
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Known for
- The Brontës Lived Here — Self1973
- I Love This Dirty Town — Self - Narrator (voice)1969
- One Pair of Eyes1967
- Omnibus1967
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-06-05 ) 5 June 1939 (age 87) , Sheffield , West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Occupation
- Biographer novelist short story writer
- Education
- Newnham College , University of Cambridge
- Years active
- 1963–
- Notable works
- A Summer Bird-Cage The Garrick Year The Millstone Jerusalem the Golden The Needle's Eye
- Notable awards
- John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize , 1966 , James Tait Black Memorial Prize , 1967 , The Yorkshire Post Book Award (Finest Fiction) , 1972 , American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award , 1973 , Golden PEN Award , 2011
- Spouses
- Clive Swift ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Michael Holroyd ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 )
- Children
- Adam Swift Rebecca Swift Joe Swift
- Relatives
- A. S. Byatt (sister)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margaret
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Sheffield
- Spouse
- Michael Holroyd
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Margaret Drabble.jpg
- Residence
- Sheffield
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- date of birth
- 1939-06-05
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- Commons category
- Margaret Drabble
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- married name
- Margaret Swift
- medical condition
- stuttering
- P12749
- seax
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Sheffield, Hull, Manchester,) and plateglass universities (such as Bradford, Keele, East Anglia and York). She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1973.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Drabble” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.