Malcolm Bradbury

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE ( born September 7, 1932 in Sheffield, † November 27, 2000 in Norwich ) was a British novelist, satirist and literary scholars.

Life

Bradbury's father was a railroad worker; the family moved to London in 1935, but returned in 1941 back to Sheffield. After the family later moved to Nottingham, Bradbury visited 1943-1950 high school in West Bridgford. At the University of Leicester, he studied English literature and moved to a first degree from the University of London, where he in 1955, his MA obtained. Between 1955 and 1958 fluctuated between Bradbury teaching at the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the USA. Due to a severe heart condition, he returned in 1958 to England, where he was operated; during hospitalization ended Bradbury 1959 his first novel, Eating People Is Wrong.

He married Elizabeth Salt, which would later give birth to two sons, Matthew and Dominic. First, Bradbury worked at the University of Hull in adult education. With a biographical study of Evelyn Waugh he started in 1962 his career as a writer and editor of scientific works: At the University of Manchester he received his PhD in American Studies. From 1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Birmingham. In 1965 his second novel, Stepping Westward. 1970 Bradbury was a professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. There he addressed a prestigious degree program for Creative Writing, the Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro completed. In 1995 he had to retire.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • The After Dinner Game
  • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
  • Eating People Is Wrong ( 1959)
  • Stepping Westward (1968 )
  • The Social Context of Modern English Literature (1971 )
  • Possibilities (1973 )
  • Who Do You Think You Are - a collection of short stories
  • The History Man ( 1975) dt The history man
  • German exchange rates
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