Mary Renault
Mary Renault | |
|---|---|
 Mary Renault | |
| Pekerjaan | Penulis |
| Kebangsaan | Inggirs |
| Pendidikan | St Hugh's College, Oxford |
| Periode | 1939–1981 |
| Genre | Fiksi sejarah, Yunani kuno |
| Pasangan | Julie Mullard |
Mary Renault (/rɛnoʊlt/ Ren-olt[2]) (4 September 1905 – 13 Desember 1983) lahir dengan nama Eileen Mary Challans,[1] adalah seorang penulis Inggris yang terkenal atas novel-novel sejarahnya yang berlatar di Yunani kuno. Dia banyak menggambarkan tokoh-tokoh seperti Theseus, Sokrates, Plato dan Aleksander Agung, selain itu dia juga menulis biografi Aleksander Agung.
Karya
Fiksi kontemporer
- Purposes of Love (judul Amerika Serikat: Promise of Love) (1939)
- Kind Are Her Answers (1940)
- The Friendly Young Ladies (judul Amerika Serikat: The Middle Mist) (1943)
- Return to Night (1947)
- The North Face (1948)
- The Charioteer (1953)
Novel sejarah
- The Last of the Wine (1956) — berlatar di kota Athena selama Perang Peloponnesia; naratornya adalah murid Sokrates
- The King Must Die (1958) — kisah Theseus hingga kematian ayahnya
- The Bull from the Sea (1962) — kisah Theseus setelah kematian ayahnya
- The Mask of Apollo (1966) — seorang ator pada masa Plato dan Dionisios Muda
- Fire from Heaven (1969) — kisah Aleksander Agung mulai dari umur empat tahun sampai kematian ayahnya
- The Persian Boy (1972) — kisah Aleksander Agung setelah penaklukan Persia
- The Praise Singer (1978) — kisah penyair Simonides dari Keios
- Funeral Games (1981) — kisah para penerus Aleksander Agung
Nonfiksi
- The Nature of Alexander (1975) — bografi Aleksander Agung
- Lion in the Gateway: The Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae (1964) — menguraikan tentang Perang Persia
Referensi
- Brian Alderson. "Challans, (Eileen) Mary" Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement, 1980-1989 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
- David Sweetman. Mary Renault: a biography. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1993), ISBN 0-7011-3568-9.
- Caroline Zilboorg. The masks of Mary Renault: a literary biography. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001), ISBN 0-8262-1322-7.
Catatan kaki
- ^ a b "Salinan arsip". Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2015-02-18. Diakses tanggal 2011-03-12.
- ^ Sweetman, David (1994). Mary Renault: A Biography. Orlando, FL: Harvest/HBJ. hlm. 74. ISBN 0-15-600060-1.
Pranala luar
- Ulasan The Friendly Young Ladies Diarsipkan 2007-09-29 di Wayback Machine.
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