Fay Weldon (1931–2023)
Autor de Vida y amores de una maligna
Sobre El Autor
Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England on September 22, 1931. She read economics and psychology at the University of St. Andrews. She worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising copywriter for various firms in London before making writing a full-time mostrar más career. Her work includes over twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage. Her collections of short stories include Mischief and Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide. She wrote a memoir entitled Auto Da Fay and non-fiction book entitled What Makes Women Happy. She wrote the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967. Her other novels include Praxis, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, Rhode Island Blues, Mantrapped, She May Not Leave, The Spa Decameron, Habits of the House, Long Live the King, and The New Countess. Wicked Women won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She was awarded a CBE in 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Fay Weldon
A Good Sound Marriage [short story] 4 copias
Madame Bovary: Breakfast With Emma 2 copias
Weekend 2 copias
Fatherhood Reclaimed: The Making of the Modern Father (an article from New Statesman) (1996) 1 copia
Mixed Doubles (AYCKBOURN) 1 copia
Memoiren eines Teufelsweibes 1 copia
Was Frauen glücklich macht 1 copia
Upstairs, Downstairs: Second Season - Volume II [TV series, 1972] — Writer — 1 copia
HLe Iamiche del cuore 1 copia
Οι κυρίες φορούν BVLGARI 1 copia
Polaris: And Other Stories 1 copia
Upstairs Downstairs: First Season - Volume I [TV series, 1971] — Writer — 1 copia
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contribuidor — 298 copias
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contribuidor — 150 copias
Bram Stoker's Dracula Omnibus: Dracula/the Lair of the White Worm/Dracula's Guest (1992) — Introducción — 91 copias
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
The Cloning Of Joanna May [1992 TV mini series] — Original book — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Birkinshaw, Franklin (meisjesnaam)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-09-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2023-01-04
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Northampton, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Auckland, New Zealand
London, England, UK
Dorset, England, UK
Coromandel, New Zealand - Educación
- University of St Andrews (MA|1952)
- Ocupaciones
- advertising copywriter
novelist
short story writer
essayist
university professor
playwright - Relaciones
- Jepson, Margaret (mother)
Jepson, Edgar (grandfather) - Organizaciones
- Brunel University
The Savoy Hotel, London
Ogilvy, Benson & Mather
Crawford's Advertising Agency
British Foreign Office
Bath Spa University - Premios y honores
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (2001)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1986) - Biografía breve
- Fay Weldon's body of work includes more than 20 novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, magazine articles and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage (including the pilot episode of the hit TV series Upstairs Downstairs). Her fiction, much of which is satiric in tone, often focuses on women and gives voice to their inner thoughts and feelings. She married Roy Weldon in 1962 (they later divorced) and the couple had three sons in addition to Fay's older child. After a successful career in advertising, she began writing fiction and published her first novel in 1967.
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Vida y amores de una Maligna por Fay Weldon
Ruth jamás había podido soñar con ser una Maligna. Nada en su vida pacata, de mujer torpe y grandullona, fiel esposa y madre de dos hijos en un suburbio londinense, indicaba que podría dejar de ser la buena chica que estaba destinada a ser. No obstante, de pronto, un día, su marido le confiesa que está enamorado de la bella , delicada, rica y exitosa escritora de novelas de amor, Mary Fisher. En la tirantez que crea semejante situación, Ruth inicia el cambio al punto de que su marido llega a llamarla, con razón, «maligna». Y, por primera vez, Ruth empieza a cavilar si ésta no es precisamente la palabra que mejor la define…De hecho, en pocas semanas ha quemado su casa, abandonado a sus hijos, robado a su marido, y así hasta un desenlace imprevisible y totalmente merecido. Esta comedia, a la vez fantástica, conmovedora y profundamente satírica y con frecuencia muy divertida es la décima novela de una autora hoy ya consagrada en Gran Bretaña.… (más)
El millonario Bariey Salt acaba de casarse con Doris Dubois, una famosa y seductora presentadora de televisión, pero todavía no ha logrado deshacerse de la furia de su ex mujer, Grace McNab, quien acaba de salir de la cárcel por intentar embestir con su Jaguar a Doris cuando ésta salía del supermercado. Los tres coinciden en una fiesta donde se subasta un retrato de la anfitriona realizado por Walter Wells en el que aparece un collar magníficamente trabajado y tallado por los prestigiosos joyeros de Bulgari. Doris cree que merece tener un collar como el del retrato...… (más)
Mary fisher is a small and pretty and delicately formed, prone to fainting and weeping and sleeping with men while pretending that she doesn't.
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