V. S. Pritchett

Victor Sawdon Pritchett, CH, CBE (Ipswich, 16 de dezembro de 1900 - Londres, 20 de março de 1997) foi um escritor e crítico literário britânico. Pritchett era conhecido principalmente por seus contos, reunidos em vários volumes. Seus trabalhos de não ficção incluem as memórias A Cab at the Door (1968) e Midnight Oil (1971), e muitas coleções de ensaios sobre biografia e crítica literária,

V. S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett
Nascimento	16 de dezembro de 1900 Ipswich
Morte	20 de março de 1997 (96 anos) Londres
Cidadania	Reino Unido
Alma mater	Dulwich College Alleyn's School
Ocupação	escritor, crítico literário, romancista, professor universitário, jornalista, biógrafo, crítico
Distinções	Comandante da Ordem do Império Britânico Membro da Sociedade Real de Literatura Knight Bachelor Heinemann Award (1969) Ordem dos Companheiros de Honra (1992)
Empregador(a)	Universidade da Califórnia, Smith College
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Bibliografia

• Marching Spain, 1928
• Clare Drummer, 1929
• The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories, 1932
• Shirley Sanz, 1932
• Nothing Like Leather, 1935
• Dead Man Leading, 1937
• This England, 1938 (editor)
• You Make Your Own Life, 1938
• In My Good Books, 1942
• It May Never Happen, 1945
• Novels and Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1945 (editor)
• Build the Ships, 1946
• The Living Novel, 1946
• Turnstile One, 1948 (editor)
• Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views Between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and V. S. Pritchett, 1948
• Mr Beluncle, 1951
• Books in General, 1953
• The Spanish Temper, 1954
• Collected Stories, 1956
• The Sailor, The Sense of Humour and Other Stories, 1956
• When My Girl Comes Home, 1961
• London Perceived, 1962 (fotografias de Evelyn Hofer)
• The Key to My Heart, 1963
• Foreign Faces, 1964
• New York Proclaimed, 1965
• The Working Novelist, 1965
• The Saint and Other Stories, 1966
• Dublin, 1967
• A Cab at the Door, 1968
• Blind Love, 1969
• George Meredith and English Comedy, 1970
• Midnight Oil, 1971
• Penguin Modern Stories, 1971 (com outros)
• Balzac, 1973
• The Camberwell Beauty, 1974
• The Gentle Barbarian: the Life and Work of Turgenev, 1977
• Selected Stories, 1978
• On the Edge of the Cliff, 1979
• Myth Makers, 1979
• The Tale Bearers, 1980
• The Oxford Book of Short Stories, 1981 (editor)
• The Turn of the Years, 1982 (com R. Stone)
• Collected Stories, 1982
• More Collected Stories, 1983
• The Other Side of a Frontier, 1984
• A Man of Letters, 1985
• Chekhov, 1988
• A Careless Widow and Other Stories, 1989
• Complete Short Stories, 1990
• At Home and Abroad, 1990
• Lasting Impressions, 1990
• Complete Collected Essays, 1991
• A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil, 1994—ISBN 0-679-60103-1
• The Pritchett Century, 1997

Referências

Fontes

• Baldwin, D (1987), VS Pritchett .
• Epstein, Joseph (1993), «The enduring VS Pritchett», The New Criterion .
• Fulford, Robert (2 de abril de 1997), «VS Pritchett», Toronto, CA, The Globe and Mail .
• Serafin, Steven R, ed. (1999), Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, 3 .
• Seymour-Smith, Martin; Kimmens, Andrew C (1996), World Authors 1900–1950, 3 .
• Stinson, John J (1992), VS Pritchett: A Study of the Short Fiction, New York .
• Treglown, Jeremy (2004), VS Pritchett: A Working Life, ISBN 0-7011-7322-X, London: Chatto & Windus .

Ligações externas

• Guppy, Shusha; Anthony Weller (1990). «The Art of Fiction No. 122: V.S. Pritchett». The Paris Review. Winter 1990 (117) 
• Power, Chris (2 de fevereiro de 2008). «A brief survey of the short story: VS Pritchett». The Guardian. London 
• Pritchett, Victor Sawdon (2005), «Blind Love», Narrative Magazine (short story) .
• Pritchett, Victor Sawdon, The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Manuscripts Collection), University of Texas .
• PEN International .
• VS Pritchett Memorial Prize (RSL) – past recipients
• Sir V.S. Pritchett at www.npg.org.uk
• Hans Koning's take on a review written by V.S. Pritchett (1968)
• Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: V.S. Pritchett collection, 1979-1982