Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
Author of Justine
About the Author
Lawrence Durrell was born on February 27, 1912 in Jullundur, India to British parents. During World War II, he served as a British press officer. His first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935, but was considered a failure. Some of his other works include The Black Book, The show more Alexandria Quartet, The Avignon Quintet, and Caesar's Vast Ghost: A Portrait of Provence. Bitter Lemons won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1959. He died on November 7, 1990 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: The Freedom of Poetry, Derek Stanford Falcon Press, 1947
Series
Works by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One: Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (2018) 4 copies
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit of… (2018) 3 copies
Vega 2 copies
I.A. 2 copies
High Barbary [short fiction] 2 copies
Justine [and] Mountolive 2 copies
Nothing is lost, sweet self — Poem — 2 copies
The grey penitents 1 copy
בלשאצר 1 copy
Case History 1 copy
Premature epitaphs and all 1 copy
Selected Poems 1943-1963 1 copy
Carnival 1 copy
Poemas 1 copy
The Ghost Train 1 copy
Two excursions into reality 1 copy
Call Of The Sea 1 copy
Letters to Jean Fanchette 1 copy
Noblesse Oblige 1 copy
Drage's Divine Discontent 1 copy
Ikons and Other Poems 1 copy
Ten poems 1 copy
White Man’s Milk 1 copy
For Immediate Release 1 copy
Alexandriai négyes. 2. köt 1 copy
Jots And Tittles 1 copy
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 550 copies
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Contributor — 100 copies
Christ and Freud: A Study of Religious Experience and Observance (1959) — Preface, some editions — 17 copies
Lear's Corfu : An Anthology Drawn from the Painter's Letters and Prefaced — Editor — 3 copies
Reichel Par Brassai Miller Durrell Bissiere — Contributor — 1 copy
海 1969年06月 発刊記念号 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Legal name
- Durrell, Lawrence George
- Other names
- DURRELL, Lawrence George
DURRELL, Lawrence - Birthdate
- 1912-02-27
- Date of death
- 1990-11-07
- Burial location
- Churchyard of the Chapelle St-Julien de Montredon, Sommières, Provence, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Jallandhar, British India
- Place of death
- Sommières, Provence, France
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Places of residence
- Jallandhar, India
Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Corfu, Greece
Alexandria, Egypt
Cordoba, Argentina
Belgrade, Serbia (show all 8)
Nicosia, Cyprus
Sommières, Provence, France - Education
- St Edmund's School, Canterbury, England, UK
St Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India
St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, England, UK - Occupations
- editor
translator
poet
novelist
press officer
attaché - Relationships
- Durrell, Gerald (brother)
Durrell, Leslie (brother)
Durrell, Margaret (sister) - Organizations
- British Foreign Service
- Awards and honors
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1954)
Duff Cooper Prize (1957)
Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1962)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1975)
Members
Discussions
The Lawrence Durrell Centenary in Literary Snobs (January 2012)
Reviews
Lists
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Folio Society (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 125
- Also by
- 32
- Members
- 16,890
- Popularity
- #1,326
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 289
- ISBNs
- 830
- Languages
- 30
- Favorited
- 85
I will not be bothering to read any more of the Antrobus books however, just not my type of humour.