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Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
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culture · Scottish author (1918–2006) · writer · poet · novelist · playwright · editor · screenwriter · literary critic · biographer · also Muriel Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, Muriel Camberg, Muriel Sarah Camberg, Muriel Sarah Spark, Spark
Born 1 February 1918 · Died 13 April 2006 · Q233956
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2026· 5 entries
Wigtown Book Festival: Like a Cat Loves a Bird, The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
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Public attention spiked: 9,717 Wikipedia readers in one day, 38× the usual 256, with 0 article edits.
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The New York Times: Muriel Spark
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The Guardian: Where to start with: Muriel Spark
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Muriel Spark and the Doppelgänger That Wasn’t
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The Guardian: ‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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The Guardian: Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review – the mercurial Muriel Spark
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Girls of Slender Means review – Muriel Spark’s postwar tale told with zingy wit
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2018· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Listen to Muriel Spark Read from Her Work, in Honor of Her Hundredth Birthday
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Lost Man Booker Prize for The Driver's Seat (2010).
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Spark was posthumously shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize of 1970 for The Driver's Seat
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2008· 1 entry
The Times ranked Spark as no
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2006· 5 entries
The New Criterion: Muriel Spark, RIP
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NPR: Muriel Spark, Animal Lover
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The New Criterion: Muriel Spark, 1918-2006
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Died 2006-04-13.
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And is buried in the cemetery of Sant'Andrea Apostolo in Oliveto
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2005· 1 entry
Spark was made an honorary citizen
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1998· 3 entries
Won Golden PEN Award (1998).
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A reporter from The Jewish Chronicle published a story about the ketubah of Spark's parents at the East London Synagogue which would have required both the bride and groom to prove that they are Jewish
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Was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for a "Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature"
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded David Cohen Prize (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Much of the material was deposited at National Library of Scotland
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Saltire Awards (1987).
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Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction (1987).
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1969· 1 entry
For The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1967).
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And Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for services to literature
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Mandelbaum Gate (1965).
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For The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation T
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1953· 1 entry
Muriel Spark was baptized in the Church of England but in 1954 she decided to join the Roman Catholic Church, which she considered crucial in her development toward becoming a novelist
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1940· 1 entry
Muriel left Sidney and temporarily placed Robin in a convent school, as children were not permitted to travel during the war
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1937· 1 entry
Became engaged to Sidney Oswald Spark, 13 years her senior, whom she had met in Edinburgh
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-02-01.
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