Penelope Gilliatt

Penelope Gilliatt ( born March 25, 1932 in London, † May 9, 1993 ibid ) was an English novelist and short story writer, film critic and screenwriter.

Life

In the years 1968 to 1979 she worked as a film critic for The New Yorker and has written for these short stories. Previously, she held the same position for The Observer in London.

In 1965 she published with One by On her first novel. Overall, she wrote five novels as well as his life several short story collections. Your reviews and some of her articles have been published in two anthologies. Your last work To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy, a collection of essays, published in 1990.

For their screenplay for the 1971 released film Sunday, Bloody Sunday, she was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in the category. The National Society of Film Critics honored her in 1972 with an award for Best Screenplay, they also received an award from the New York Film Critics Circle Award.

Except for Sunday, Bloody Sunday, she joined just one more time as a screenwriter in appearance: In 1975, she was involved in this function on an episode of Play Centre.

Other awards conferred on it also in 1972 by the Writers Guild of America and Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

Gilliatt was married in first marriage to Roger Gilliatt. From her second marriage to John Osborne in the years 1963 to 1968 produced a daughter. For several years she was romantically involved with the film critic Vincent Canby.