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Muriel Spark

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Dame Muriel Spark
Spark in 1960
BornMuriel Sarah Camberg
1 Februar 1918(1918-02-01)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Dee'd13 Apryle 2006(2006-04-13) (aged 88)
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
ThriftNovelist, short story writer, poet, essayist
Notable warksThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Mandelbaum Gate
The Driver's Seat
Memento Mori

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 Februar 1918 – 13 Aprile 2006)[1] wis a Scots novelist, short story writer, poet an essayist. In 2008, the The Times named Spark as No. 8 in its leet o "the 50 greatest Breetish writers syne 1945".[2]

References

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  1. Jenny Turner (17 Apryle 2006), "Dame Muriel Spark", The Guardian.
  2. "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945", The Times, 5 Januar 2008, archived frae the original on 25 Apryle 2011, retrieved 19 Februar 2010.