Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)
Autor de La suerte de Jim
Sobre El Autor
Kingsley Amis is generally considered one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s. He was born in London in 1922 and educated at the City of London School. He received a degree in English language and literature from St. John's College, Oxford, in 1947. Until 1961 Amis lectured in English at mostrar más University College, Swansea, and for the following two years at Cambridge. In 1947 Amis published his first collection of poems, Bright November. Frame of Mind followed in 1953 and Poems: Fantasy Portraits in 1954. His first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), established his reputation as a writer. He followed with That Uncertain Feeling (1956), and I Like It Here (1958). A longtime James Bond devotee, Amis wrote a James Bond adventure after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. Amis's study of the famous spy was titled The James Bond Dossier (1965). Amis received the Booker Prize for the Old Devils (1986). Amis's later works include Memoirs (1990), and The King's English, a collection of essays on the craft of writing well. Amis was knighted in 1990. He died in 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Kingsley Amis
Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley: Starring Alan Bennett & Robert Hardy (BBC Radio Collection) (2002) 6 copias
Take A Girl Like You [1970 film] — Screenwriter — 4 copias
Hemingway in Space [short fiction] 4 copias
Colllected letters 2 copias
Mason's Life [short fiction] 2 copias
Journey Into the Past 2 copias
Who Or What Was It? 1 copia
Amis Kingsley 1 copia
Yasli Kurtlar 1 copia
Conversations 1 copia
Something Strange 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contribuidor — 365 copias
The war of the worlds, The time machine, and selected short stories (1963) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 155 copias
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 149 copias
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 119 copias
Lucky Jim [1957 film] — Original book — 3 copias
The Green Man [1990 TV series] — Original book — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Amis, Kingsley William
- Otros nombres
- Markham, Robert (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-04-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1995-10-22
- Lugar de sepultura
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Clapham, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- St Pancras Hospital, London, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- stroke
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Wales, UK - Educación
- Oxford University (BA|1949| St John's College)
City of London School - Ocupaciones
- Writer
- Relaciones
- Amis, Martin (son)
- Organizaciones
- Angry Young Men
Communist Party of Great Britain
Royal Corps of Signals - Premios y honores
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1961)
Order of the British Empire (Commander) (1981)
Knight Bachelor (1990)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Best Satire (1)
Folio Society (1)
Favourite Books (1)
My TBR (2)
Nifty Fifties (1)
Booker Prize (3)
First Novels (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
United Kingdom (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 96
- También por
- 45
- Miembros
- 17,705
- Popularidad
- #1,245
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 362
- ISBNs
- 505
- Idiomas
- 15
- Favorito
- 35
El estilo de Kingsley Amis es desenfadado e irónico, está salpicado de finas y agudas críticas, el carácter de este ensayo resulta sugerente, por lo inédito en nuestra literatura; Amis construye una inteligente apología del género, analiza comparativamente la Ciencia Ficción y la literatura fantástica.… (más)