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1、Margaret Drabble 德雷伯尔简介1939- 小说：A Summer Bird-cage 夏日的鸟笼;The Garrick Year 茄立克年;The Millstone 磨石;The Needles Eye 针眼 ;The Realms of Gold 黄金世界;The Ice Age 冰期born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girls development
2、 toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.Drabble began writing after leaving Cambridge University. The central characters of her novels, although widely different in character and circumstance, are shown in situations of tension and stress that are the necessary con
3、ditions for their moral growth. Drabble is concerned with the individuals attempt to define the self, but she is also interested in social change. She writes in the tradition of such authors as George Eliot, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett.Drabbles early novels include A Summer Bird-Cage (1962), abo
4、ut a woman unsure of her lifes direction after dropping out of graduate school, and The Millstone (1965), the story of a woman who eventually sees her illegitimate child as both a burden and a blessing. Drabble won the E.M. Forster Award for The Needles Eye (1972), which explores questions of religi
5、on and morality. Her trilogy comprising The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989), and The Gates of Ivory (1991) follows the lives of three women who met at Cambridge during the 1950s. In The Peppered Moth (2000) Drabble detailed four generations of mothers and daughters in a Yorkshire fami
6、ly. The Sea Lady (2007) traces the relationship of a man and woman who met as children before either became famoushe as a marine biologist and she as a feministand ends with their reunion. In addition to her novels, Drabble wrote several books on the general subject of literature, as well as journal
7、 articles and screenplays. She also edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature.LifeDrabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie, ne Bloor. Her elder sister is the novelist and critic A. S. Byatt an
8、d their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon.After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a major scholarship for Newnham College, Cambridge. She studied English and was awarded a starred double first.citation neededShe
9、 joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a literary career. Her first novel, A Summer Bird Cage, was published in 1963. She chaired the National Book League (now Booktrust) from 1980 to
10、1982.Drabble was married to actor Clive Swift between 1960 and 1975; they have three children, one of whom is gardener and TV personality Joe Swift. In 1982, she married the writer and biographer Michael Holroyd (now Sir Michael); they live in London and Somerset.Drabble was appointed Commander of t
11、he Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1980 Queens Birthday Honours, the University of Cambridge awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Letters in 2006, and she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. In response to the U.S. invasion o
12、f Iraq she wrote an article calling herself anti-American, saying My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me like a disease. It rises in my throat like acid reflux. She closed by saying, Long live the other America, and may this one pass away soon, referring to the res
13、t of America that did not vote for George W. Bush for President. WorksDrabble has published seventeen novels to date. Her early novels were published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (196387); more recently, her publishers have been Penguin and Viking. Her third novel, The Millstone (1965), brought her the
14、John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1966, and Jerusalem the Golden won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1967.A theme of her novels is the correlation between contemporary Englands society and its individual members. Her characters tragic faults reflect the political and economic situation an
15、d the restrictiveness of conservative surroundings, making the reader aware of the dark spots of a seemingly wealthy country. Most of her protagonists are women. The realistic descriptions of her figures often owes something to Drabbles personal experiences. Thus, her first novels describe the life
16、of young women during the late 1960s and 1970s, for whom the conflict between motherhood and intellectual challenges is being brought into focus. 1998s The Witch of Exmoor finally shows the withdrawn existence of an old author. Though inspired by her own life, her works are not mainly autobiographical. Fictional conflicts of everyday life, such as unwanted pregnancy in The Millstone, are not shown in a melodramatic and compassionate manner but with the ironic and
