Nicholas Monsarrat

Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL (Liverpool, 22 de março de 1910 – Londres, 8 de agosto de 1979) foi um romancista britânico notório por suas ficções náuticas, sobretudo The Cruel Sea (1951) e Three Corvettes (1942–45), mas internacionalmente conhecido pelas novelas The Tribe That Lost Its Head e sua sequência, Richer Than All His Tribe.[1][2]

Nicholas Monsarrat
Nicholas Monsarrat
Nascimento 22 de março de 1910
Liverpool
Morte 8 de agosto de 1979 (69 anos)
Londres
Cidadania Reino Unido
Alma mater
Ocupação escritor, jornalista, romancista, advogado
Prêmios
  • Membro da Sociedade Real de Literatura
  • Heinemann Award
Obras destacadas The Cruel Sea

Publicações
  • Think of Tomorrow (1934)
  • At First Sight (1935)
  • The Whipping Boy (1937)
  • This is the Schoolroom (1939)
  • The Visitor – play
  • HM Corvette (1942)
  • East Coast Corvette (1943)
  • Corvette Command (1944)
  • Three Corvettes (1945) (uma consolidação do HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette and Corvette Command)
  • Leave Cancelled (1945)
  • Three Corvettes (1945 e 1953)
  • HM Frigate (1946)
  • Depends on What You Mean by Love (1947)
  • HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour (1947)
  • My Brother Denys (1948)
  • The Cruel Sea (1951)
  • The Story of Esther Costello (1952)
  • The Boy's Book of the Sea – como editor (1954)
  • Canada from Coast to Coast (1955)
  • Castle Garac (1955)
  • The Tribe That Lost Its Head (1956)[3]
  • The Boy's Book of the Commonwealth – como editor (1957)
  • The Ship That Died of Shame, and Other Stories (1959) (compreendendo The Ship That Died of Shame; Oh To Be in England!; The Reconciliation; The List; The Thousand Islands Snatch; Up The Garden Path; The Man Who Wanted a Mark IX; I Was There; The Dinner Party; Licensed To Kill; Postscript)
  • The Nylon Pirates (1960)
  • The White Rajah (1961)
  • The Time Before This (1962)
  • To Stratford with Love (1963)
  • Smith and Jones (1963)
  • A Fair Day's Work (1964)
  • Something to Hide (1965)
  • The Pillow Fight (1965)
  • Life Is a Four-Letter Word (volume 1): Breaking In (Londres, 1966) – autobiografia
  • Richer Than All His Tribe (1968)
  • Life Is a Four-Letter Word (volume 2): Breaking Out (Londres, 1970) – autobiografia
  • The Kappillan of Malta (1973)
  • Monsarrat at Sea (1975)
  • The Master Mariner, Book 1: Running Proud (1978)
  • The Master Mariner, Book 2: Darken Ship – romance inacabado (1981)

Adaptações cinematográficas de suas obras
  • The Cruel Sea (1953)
  • The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
  • HMS Marlborough Will Enter Port – filme para TV (1956)
  • The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
  • Bait for the Tiger (1957)
  • Something to Hide (1972)
  • The Reconciliation (1984)

Referências
  1. Krueger, Christine L. (2003), Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries, ISBN 0-8160-4670-0, Facts on File, p. 257
  2. «Nicholas Monsarrat». Encyclopædia Britannica. Consultado em 31 de agosto de 2015
  3. «THE "CRUEL SEA" MAN GOES TO AFRICA Monsarrat writes a 'let-down'.». The Argus. Melbourne. 13 de outubro de 1956. p. 10. Consultado em 10 de julho de 2012 – via National Library of Australia

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