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Muriel Spark


Scotland (1918 - 2006)

Muriel Spark is an internationally respected biographer, critic and novelist.

Awards: James Tait Black (1965)  see all
 
Novels
   The Comforters (1954)
   Robinson (1958)
   Memento Mori (1959)
   The Bachelors (1960) (with L P Hartley)
   The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
   The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
   The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
   The Public Image (1968)
   The Very Fine Clock (1968)
   The Driver's Seat (1970)
   Not to Disturb (1971)
   The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
   The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
   The Takeover (1976)
   Territorial Rights (1979)
   Loitering with Intent (1981)
   The Only Problem (1984)
   A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)
   Symposium (1990)
   Reality and Dreams (1996)
   The Quest for Lavishes Ghast (1998)
   Aiding and Abetting (2000)
   The Finishing School (2004)
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Books containing stories by Muriel Spark
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Sunless Solstice (2021)
Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 27)
edited by
Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk
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Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017)
edited by
Tim Martin

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Awards
1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : The Mandelbaum Gate

Award nominations
1981 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Loitering with Intent
1969 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Public Image


Muriel Spark recommends
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In Search Of A Beginning (2004)
Marie-Francoise Allain and Yvonne Cloetta
"A modern classic."
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Jeanette Winterson
"A fresh voice with a mind behind it is just what we need now in the literature of the English language and certainly Jeanette Winterson provides it...She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."
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Family Ties (1960)
Clarice Lispector
"Clarice Lispector reminds one of the best of Katherine Mansfield and Chekov, but her voice is uniquely her own."

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