Antonia Fraser - à propos de l'auteur

Le site d'Antonia Fraser:
http://www.antoniafraser.com/index.aspx





Antonia Fraser - Biography
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Since 1969 Antonia Fraser has written nine acclaimed historical works which have been international best-sellers. She began with MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (1969) and followed it with CROWELL: OUR CHIEF OF MEN (1973) and CHARLES II (1979). Three books featuring women’s history came next: THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMAN’S LOT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1984); THE WARRIOR QUEENS (1988) and THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII (1992). A study in religious extremism, THE GUNPOWDER PLOT: TERROR AND FAITH IN 1605 (1996) was followed by two books set at the court of Versailles: MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE JOURNEY (2001) and LOVE AND LOUIS XIV: THE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF THE SUN KING (2006).

Antonia Fraser has also written eight crime novels and two books of short stories featuring Jemima Shore Investigator. She edits the Kings and Queens of England series for Weidenfeld & Nicolson including her own short illustrated book KING JAMES VI AND I (1974) and the composite volume KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (1975). She has also edited the following anthologies: SCOTTISH LOVE POEMS (1974), LOVE LETTERS (1976), HEROES AND HEROINES (1980) and THE PLEASURE OF READING (1992).

Among the many awards she has received are the Wolfson Award for History; the James Tait Black Prize for Biography; the Crimewriters’ Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; the Franco-British Society Literary Award, and the Norton Medlicott Medallion of the Historical Association. She was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature.

Antonia Fraser is the eldest child of the Labour politician and prison reformer Lord Longford and the historical biographer Elizabeth Longford. She has six children by her first marriage to Sir Hugh Fraser MP and eighteen grandchildren. Her most recent book is Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. She lives in London.



Voici qui corrigera une erreur que j'avais lue je ne sais plus où: Lady Antonia Fraser est anglaise, pas américaine.   

Beaucoup apprécié son regard et son approche de MA, finesse d'analyse, juste sensibilité sans délires excessifs...Harold Pinter aussi était génial....

Rappel des conditions dans lesquelles Lady Fraser a été contactée par Miss Coppola et déroulement du travail. Le tout ponctué d'amusantes réflexions confiée par l'auteure à son journal intime.





It was in 2001, however, that her most well-known book, Marie Antoinette: The Journey was published. The book offers a refreshingly unbiased and deeply analytical look at the life of the notorious French queen. Before the book was even published, director Sofia Coppola reached out to Lady Antonia about discussing the possibility of Coppola buying the rights to the book to make a film. Of this proposition Lady Antonia noted in her diary, “But of course the film won’t actually happen. Because it never does.” Obviously she was wrong, and she served as a source as Coppola both wrote and directed the movie. Lady Antonia was a vital resource to the creation of the film and met with many of the cast and crew before and during filming to consult with them on the direction they were going and the historical accuracy of it all. Of the final product, she wrote “In principle I loved Sofia’s use of anachronisms—the witty flash of sneakers amid a delicious montage of pink and turquoise shoes was especially pleasing. None of the liberties taken bothered me.”
To coincide with the film’s release, her book was republished in 2006 and gained an even larger following than it had after its initial release.
http://onelondonone.blogspot.be/

So British !