The Modern British Novel 1878-2001

Biographie de Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury was a novelist, critic, television dramatist and Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He was the author of seven novels, including The History Man (1975), winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize, and Rates of Exchange (1983), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. His other novels include Doctor Criminale (1992) and To the Hermitage (2000). He wrote short-fiction, satires and parodies. Among his many critical works are The Modern British Novel (Penguin, 1994 ; revised edition, 2000) and Dangerous Pilgrimages : Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the Novel (Penguin, 1996). He also edited The Penguin Book of Modern Short Stories (Penguin, 1988), Modernism (with Professor James McFarlane ; Penguin, 1991) and The Atlas of Literature (1997). For television he wrote two television novels about the European Community, The Gravy Train and The Gravy Train Goes East, and many episodes of A Touch of Frost, Dalziel and Pasoce, Kavanagh Q. C. and Inspector Morse. He also wrote the screenplays of Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue, Kingsley Amis's The Green Man and Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, now a feature film. In 1991 he was awarded the CBE and was knighted for services to literature in 2000. Malcolm Bradbury died on 27 November 2000. Among the many tributes paid to him, the Guardian described him as "one of the most prolific and influential novelists, critics and academics of his generation... His death marks the close of half a century of academic and literary history, of which he was par excellence the chronicler."