Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 Dec 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel
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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 Dec 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize for 1979 with Offshore, a novel set among residents of houseboats in Battersea in 1961. Human Voices (1980) is a fictionalised account of wartime life at the BBC, while At Freddie's (1982) depicts life at a drama school. In 1999 Fitzgerald was awarded the Golden PEN Award from English PEN for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature”
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