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Margaret Drabble

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British novelist, biographer, and critic

United KingdomWritersBorn 1939 · age 87
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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.

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Margaret Drabble
said · Jan 2, 1993
Own words

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history.

The Guardian, January 2, 1993.

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Margaret Drabble
said · Mar 31, 1985
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

"The Limits of Mother Love", in The New York Times Book Review, March 31, 1985

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Margaret Drabble
said · 1989
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England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.

A Natural Curiosity (New York: Viking, 1989) p. 308

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Awards 6

2003St. Louis Literary Award
1973E. M. Forster Award
1973Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1967James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1939 · age 87
Written about in
25 languages

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