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Charles Langbridge Morgan

British writer (1894-1958) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 64

Charles Langbridge Morgan was a British playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them.

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1958Died6 February 19581948Honorary Doctor of Caen UniversityAwardHonorary Doctor of the University of ToulouseAward1940James Tait Black Memorial PrizeAward1932Hawthornden PrizeAward1894Born22 January 1894

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Honorary Doctor of Caen University1948
Honorary Doctor of the University of Toulouse1948
James Tait Black Memorial Prize1940
Hawthornden Prize1932

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Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death (Sparkenbroke). He was married to Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan.

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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1894 to 1958 · aged 64