Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart ( * March 1, 1942 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, † June 2, 2011 in London) was an Irish -born British writer, publisher, theater producer and television presenter. She became famous especially with her debut novel from 1991, doom, which was later made ​​into a film internationally bestselling and Louis Malle.

Life and work

Hart was one of seven children of Catholic parents; the father was a garage manager. She grew up in Mullingar, where he attended first the local boarding school. Later she was sent by her parents to the convent school in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. The nuns of the boarding school encouraged them to gain their first experiences on stage in reciting poetry in Irish festivals. As a 12 -year-old she could Shakespearean sonnets, Yeats and WH Auden heart. As a 22 -year-old, she moved to London in 1964.

" I was a child in a country word of word children, where life was language before it what anything else. Poets were not only heroes, theywere indeed the gods of language. "

Hart made ​​his career in the publishing industry and led the Media Group Haymarket Publishing. For the love of poetry, she founded the poet read- event series Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour in London. This eventually resulted in the often crowded Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library building. Result of this series was the poetry collection Catching Life By the Throat (2006).

"Poetry, this trinity of sound, sense and sensibility, gives voice to experience in a way did no other literary art form can. "

Let Us Go Then your production, You and I, a look at Eliot 's life and works was originally planned as a one-off evening event, but was in 1987 due to the demand for a six- weekly self runner at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. For her Gallery Poets and their Poetry Hour later, she won numerous celebrities and actors, including Juliet Stephenson, Edward Fox, Roger Moore, Harriet Walter, Bob Geldof, Harold Pinter, Eileen Atkins, Bono and Dominic West.

"Poetry Has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. "

They also produced numerous plays, including the award -winning The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. It was in 1989 for a few months a TV presenter in the Thames Television series Books by My Bedside. For this, they interviewed, among others, in front of the camera guys like Derek Jarman, Clare Short and Jackie Collins.

Hart was married twice, first with the editor, Paul Buckley, last in 1984 with the well-known advertising agency magnate Maurice Saatchi. With two husbands she ever had a son. She died 69 years old in ovarian cancer. Your literary estate was the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University left.

Works

• Damage, Vintage Books, 1991 Doom, novel, Knaus, Munich 1991

• Sin, novel, Knaus, Munich 1992