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Stanley Middleton FRSL (1 August 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a British novelist.

Stanley Middleton
Born	(1919-08-01)1 August 1919 Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	25 July 2009(2009-07-25) (aged 89)
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Genre	Novel
Notable awards	Booker Prize
Spouse	Margaret Welch

Life

He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1919 and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham, and later at University College Nottingham.

Middleton started writing while at university and in 1958 published A Short Answer. Alongside his work as an author, he taught English at High Pavement Grammar School for many years. In 1974, his novel Holiday won the Booker Prize.[1] In 2008, Her Three Wise Men was published, his 44th novel and the last to be published during his lifetime.

Middleton was an accomplished organist, playing regularly at St Mark's Methodist Church on Ravensworth Road in Bulwell and stepping in to cover others, often at Mansfield Road Baptist Church in Nottingham. He was also a fine watercolourist and contributed his own artwork to the covers of the 1994 novel Catalysts and the festschrift Stanley Middleton At Eighty.

In 2006, a reporter for The Sunday Times sent the first chapters of Holiday to a number of publishers and literary agents as a journalistic stunt. Almost all rejected it.

The actor Peter Bowles was taught by Middleton while a pupil at High Pavement. In 1980 when Bowles was the subject of the popular TV programme This Is Your Life, Middleton appeared as a guest on the programme.

Middleton was married to Margaret Welch from 1951 until his death; the couple had two daughters, Penny and Sarah. Towards the end of his life, he suffered from cancer, and died in a nursing home on 25 July 2009, one week before his 90th birthday.

It has been revealed that Middleton refused an OBE in 1979. This came to light following a freedom of information request by the BBC. He did not feel that he should be honoured simply for doing what he regarded as his job.[2]

Bibliography

References

External links

• "Stanley Middleton", obituary, Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2009.
• Philip Davis, "Stanley Middleton", obituary, The Guardian, 29 July 2009.
• http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/document2012-01-24-075439.pdf

На других языках

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- [en] Stanley Middleton

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[ru] Миддлтон, Стэнли

Стэнли Миддлтон (англ. Stanley Middleton; 1 августа 1919[1], Ноттингемшир — 25 июля 2009[2][1]) — английский романист. Со-лауреат Букеровской премии за 1974 год за роман «Отпуск»[3]. В 1979 отказался от Ордена Британской Империи[4]. Был также умелым органистом. С 1951 года и до своей смерти состоял в браке с Маргарет Уэлч. Стал отцом двух дочерей. Болел раком, скончался за неделю до своего девяностолетия.

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