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Penelope Fitzgerald (English writer and poet)

  • Penelope Mary Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald, Penelope
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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Date of birth
1916-12-17
Place of birth
Lincoln
Date of death
2000-04-28
Place of death
London

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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning 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". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."

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English novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer.

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