penelope fitzgerald

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Offshore, Drama - BBC Radio 4

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set amongst 1960s Thames Barge-dwellers.

Hello Mopsians :)

We have good news for you!

Penelope Fitzgerald’s third novel “Offshore” which has won the Booke Prize in 1979 has been dramatised by the BBC. Enjoy it!

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She knew her tendency to fragment, often against her will, into other existences. The convent was intended to provide for life a fixed basis of judgement, but it had not done this for Chiara, who could not escape from the unsettling vision of other points of view, the point of view of every living creature, all defensible.

Penelope Fitzgerald, from Innocence (1986)

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[She] turned to [him], as though to another survivor from drowning. ‘This is really all I need,’ she thought, 'one moment only with someone who feels as I do.’

Penelope Fitzgerald, from The Blue Flower (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

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Hello Mopsians :)

We’ve prepared a playlist of the songs which are mentioned in one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels, called Human Voices. We can say that she had an ear for music just as she was a master at writing great and pleasing stories. Please enjoy the songs :)

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Books to read during this semester break

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"What's in a name?"

Dear Penelope Fitzgerald admirers,

I urgently need your opinion in terms of naming Fitzgerald’s admirers. For example, Jane Austen admirers are called Janeites, Virginia Woolf fans are called Woolfians so what about us? Penelope Fitzgerald fans? She didn’t like her first name, preferred to be called Mops. Shall we call ourselves Mopsians, or any other ideas? Looking forward to your answers :)

Yeşim Sultan Akbay, City of Roses, Turkey

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"Identifying the moments when one is happy is an art in itself, or I suppose a craft, which is the outcome of experience." -Penelope Fitzgerald From "Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life" by Hermione Lee

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UP TO THE CHALLENGE?

What’s up folks? We come up with a challenge this time.

As we all know, Hermione Lee, the writer of  Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, is not big fan of writing on computer. In an interview, I'm a classic example of my generation, which is that I started writing books before computers arrived, and I continue to feel the need for a physical connection between the pen and the page. So I write by hand when I'm writing a book, and then I put it onto the computer, she declares. 

We have found her hand-writing notes, before she started to write the biography of Penelope Fitzgerald and the challenge is to decrypt what she wrote down that paper. Up to the challenge?

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"Far from being bland, [Fitzgerald] is almost sentence by sentence, thrilling and funny and, I have come to believe, the finest British writer alive."

- Richard Eder, LA Times, April 13, 1997

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“Twice in your life you know that you are approved of by everyone: when you learn to walk, and when you learn to read.” —Penelope Fitzgerald