Tuesday, July 28, 2009

RIP ...

... Stanley Middleton. (Hat tip, Dave Lull, who also sends along Stanley Middleton Biography - Stanley Middleton comments.)

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  1. And crime novelist Michael Walters, who studied with Mr Middleton, says in A farewell to Stanley Middleton that

    "Despite his winning one of the earliest Booker prizes for his novel Holiday in 1974, Middleton remains perhaps one of the most under-rated of British novelists. His work is resolutely unfashionable, dealing with middle-class, middle-English, largely uneventful lives. And yet his prose is capitivating, and his plotting turns the minutiae of everyday living into gripping narratives."

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  2. The Guardian's obituary was published today.

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  3. The Telegraph's obituary was published today (July 30).

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  4. Recordings of BBC Nottingham's interviews with Stanley Middleton are here.



    The Liverpool Daily Post's obituary was published today (July 31).

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  5. A recording of David Belbin's talking about Stanley Middleton from a BBC Nottingham interview can be found here.

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  6. Today (August 6; dated August 7 in the UK) The Indepedent published their obituary: Stanley Middleton: Booker Prize-winning novelist whose works dissected the mores of Middle England.

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  7. Jeni Diski writes that Stanley Middleton ". . . wrote a calm, whispering prose, full of unspoken suggestion between ordinary acts of daily living."

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