Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels".
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Background
- Born in
- Lincoln
- Educated at
- Somerville College
- Awards
- 🏆 Booker Prize🏆 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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1916
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