Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome ( born January 18, 1884 in Leeds, † June 3, 1967 at Cheadle ) was a British writer. He is creator of the children's book series Swallows and Amazons.

Life

The son of a history professor went first to a scientific study at the Yorkshire College of Science, but he dropped out after two semesters in favor of a literary career. In 1902 he came to London, where he initially worked as an errand boy for a publishing company. As a freelance journalist and author, he later wrote, among others, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde, and was editor of narratives.

In 1913, he was a correspondent for the Daily News to Russia. He had contacts with the Secret Intelligence Service. In particular, he reported on the October Revolution. In 1916, he had success with Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of Russian fairy tales and legends. With his ketch Racundra he traveled sailing the Baltic States, which he told in the 1923 book published Racundra 's First Cruise. From 1919 he worked for the Manchester Guardian.

Newly divorced from his first marriage, he married in 1924 Evgenia Shelepin, who had worked as a secretary for Leon Trotsky. For health reasons, he had to come back to England. He lived in rural Lake District, where his 1930 started with the battle for the island ( Swallows and Amazons ) children's book series plays. For him Pigeon Post 1936, the Carnegie Medal was awarded.

Works

  • Bohemia in London ( essays, 1907)
  • Six weeks in Soviet Russia ( Six Weeks in Russia in 1919, 1919)
  • The crisis in Russia ( The Crisis in Russia, 1921)
  • Racundra 's First Cruise ( 1923)
  • The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911 )
  • Old Peter's Russian Tales ( 1916)
  • The battle for the island ( Swallows and Amazons, 1930)
  • In Schwalbental ( Swallowdale, 1931)
  • Peter Duck ( 1932)
  • Winter Holiday (1933 ) ( Christmas holidays, Friedrich Leonhard, Bad Pyrmont 1948)
  • Coot Club (1934 )
  • Pigeon Post (1936 )
  • The involuntary navigation ( We Did not Mean to Go to Sea, 1937)
  • Secret Water ( 1939)
  • The Big Six (1940 )
  • Missee Lee ( 1941) ( pirate queen Li, Union Stuttgart 1979)
  • The Picts and the Martyrs (1943 )
  • Great Northern? (1947 )
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