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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE fue una novelista inglesa.

Es autora de dieciocho novelas, dos libros de viajes, dos ensayos, dos volúmenes de relatos y cinco obras para teatro y televisión. Fue nominada en cinco ocasiones al premio Booker, y en 2011 le otogaron el premio póstumo por su labor literaria. En 2008 The Times la incluyó en la lista de “Los 50 escritores más importantes desde 1945”. The Guardian la calificó como "un tesoro nacional". Wikipedia  

✵ 21. noviembre 1932 – 2. julio 2010
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Beryl Bainbridge: Frases en inglés

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”

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Beryl Bainbridge

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

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Beryl Bainbridge

The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html

“Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”

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Beryl Bainbridge libro Injury Time

Injury Time (London: Abacus, [1977] 2003) ch. 4, pp. 41-42.

“I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

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Beryl Bainbridge

James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick (eds.), Contemporary Novelists, 2nd edition, (London: St. James Press, 1976). http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4121/Bainbridge-Beryl-Margaret-Beryl-Bainbridge-comments.html