Sue Townsend

Susan Lillian Townsend, named " Sue " ( born April 2, 1946 in Leicester) is an English author. She was best known for the book series Adrian Mole.

Life

At 15, she broke off her schooling and had different activities on water. She married for the first time on her 18th birthday. Today she is married to Colin Broadway and has four children, Sean, Daniel, Victoria and Elizabeth, and five grandchildren. Your career as a writer began when in 1978 joined a group of authors of the Phoenix Art Centre in Leicester. My first play was Womberang and was awarded the Thames Television Bursary.

Townsend suffers from diabetes, as a result, she became blind in 2001.

Topics

Sue Townsend is a critic of the monarchy and class society in England.

Works

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 three quarters (Eng. The intimate life of Adrian Mole, 13 3/ 4 years old, München: Goldmann 1988)
  • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
  • The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
  • Adrian Mole From Minor to Major is a collection of the first 3 Adrian Mole books and includes Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians a. Appeared in German under the intimate life of Adrian Mole, 13 3/ 4 years. ( published in 1999 )
  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years ( German Adrian Moles wild dreams, Munich: Piper, 1995).
  • Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years ( German Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Zurich: Haffmans 2000).
  • The Queen and I (Eng. The Queen and I, Munich: Goldmann 1993)
  • Rebuilding Coventry. A Tale of Two Cities (Eng. everything was different, Munich At a stroke: Goldmann, 1989)
  • Ghost Children
  • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction ( dt.Adrian Mole and the axis of evil, München: Heyne 2006)
  • The Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman (English War of the snails, München: Heyne 2003)
  • The Queen in Hell Close
  • Queen Camilla, 2006 ( German Queen Camilla, Munich: Heyne 2008)
  • Number Ten (German Downing Street No. 10, Berlin: Ed. Tiamat 2006. )
  • The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Eng. The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, München: Heyne 2009)
  • Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years, 2009 (Eng. The Diaries of Adrian Mole: the difficult years after 39, Berlin: Ed Tiamat 2011.)
  • The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, 2012 (Eng. The woman who stayed a year in bed, Berlin: Haffmans & Tolkemitt 2013)

Effect

The diary series about the fictional character Adrian Mole presented the secular model for the very popular in the Christian area book series Diary of a pious anarchists of the Christian writer Adrian Plass dar. This is among other things by the analogy of the title of the first volume of The Secret Diary Adrian Plass Aged 37 ¾ significantly. Sue Townsend has for decades been one of the most widely read authors in England.

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