Patrick O'Brian
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Patrick O'Brian Engelsk litteratur Modernismen Postmodernismen | |
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Personlig information | |
Født |
12. december 1914 ![]() Chalfont St Peter, Storbritannien ![]() |
Død |
2. januar 2000 (85 år) ![]() Dublin, Irland ![]() |
Gravsted |
Collioure ![]() |
Nationalitet |
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Far |
Charles Russ ![]() |
Ægtefælle |
Frieda Mary Wicksteed (fra 1945) ![]() |
Uddannelse og virke | |
Beskæftigelse |
Sprogforsker, oversætter, skribent, forfatter, romanforfatter ![]() |
Kendte værker |
Aubrey/Maturin-serien ![]() |
Genre |
Historisk roman ![]() |
Påvirket af |
Jane Austen, C.S. Forester ![]() |
Nomineringer og priser | |
Udmærkelser |
Kommandør af Order of the British Empire ![]() |
Information med symbolet ![]() |
Patrick O'Brian (født Richard Patrick Russ 12. december 1914, død 2. januar 2000) var en engelsk romanforfatter. Patrick O'Brian er først og fremmest kendt for sin Aubrey-Maturin-bogserie, om kaptajnen Jack Aubrey og skibslægen Stephen Maturin, der udspiller sig under Napoleonskrigene.
Værker[redigér | rediger kildetekst]
The Aubrey–Maturin series
- Master and Commander (1969)
- Post Captain (1972)
- HMS Surprise (1973)
- The Mauritius Command (1977)
- Desolation Island (1978)
- The Fortune of War (1979)
- The Surgeon's Mate (1980)
- The Ionian Mission (1981)
- Treason's Harbour (1983)
- The Far Side of the World (1984)
- The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
- The Letter of Marque (1988)
- The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
- The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
- Clarissa Oakes (1992)
- (The Truelove in the USA)
- The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
- The Commodore (1994)
- The Yellow Admiral (1996)
- The Hundred Days (1998)
- Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
- The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004)
- (21 in the USA)
Fiction (non-serial)
- Caesar (1930, his first book, which led him to be often labelled by critics as the 'boy-Thoreau')
- Hussein (1938)
- Testimonies (1952) (Three Bear Witness in the U.K.)
- The Catalans (1953) (The Frozen Flame in the U.K.)
- The Road to Samarcand (1954)
- The Golden Ocean (1956)
- The Unknown Shore (1959)
- Richard Temple (1962)
Short story collections
- Beasts Royal (1934)
- The Last Pool and Other Stories (1950)
- The Walker and Other Stories (1955)
- Lying in the Sun and Other Stories (1956)
- The Chian Wine and Other Stories (1974)
- Collected Short Stories (1994; The Rendezvous and Other Stories in the U.S.)
Non-fiction
- Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy (1974). ISBN 0-393-03858-0
- Picasso (1976; originally titled Pablo Ruiz Picasso). ISBN 0-00-717357-1
- Joseph Banks: A Life (1987) The Harvill Press, London. Paperback reprint, 1989. ISBN 1-86046-406-8
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