Information AboutLawrence Durrell |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT LAWRENCE DURRELL | |
| british dramatists and playwrights | |
| british novelists | |
| british poets | |
| british travel writers | |
| deaths by stroke | |
| 1912 births | |
| 1990 deaths | |
| gerald durrell | |
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LIFE AND WORK He was born in India and, at the age of eleven, was sent to attend school in England — a country in which he was never happy and which he left as soon as possible. His first novel, ''Pied Piper of Lovers'', was published in 1935 . In that year Durrell, his wife Nancy, his mother, and his siblings (including brother Gerald Durrell , later to be a major British wildlife conservationist and popular writer) moved to the Greek island of Corfu . His mother and other siblings returned to England in 1939 due to World War II . Lawrence remained. After the Fall Of Greece , Lawrence Durrell escaped via Crete to Alexandria in Egypt , where he wrote about Corfu and their life on "this brilliant little speck of an island in the Ionian" in the poetic ''Prospero's Cell''. In August 1937 he and Nancy had arrived at the Villa Seurat in Paris, on a sort of pilgrimage to meet an idol of his, Henry Miller (of Tropic Of Cancer and Tropic Of Capricorn fame). The two got on well as they had similar subjects at the time, Durrell's ''The Black Book'' abounded with "four letter words... grotesques,... its mood [as equally as apocalyptic" as "Tropic". Together with Anaïs Nin and Alfred Perles, Miller and Durrell "began a collaboration aimed at founding their own literary movement. Their projects included 'The Booster,' a country club house organ the Villa Seurat group appropriated for their own artistic...ends." Durrell separated from his wife in 1942 , and became Peripatetic , living for some time in Egypt , Rhodes , Argentina , and Greece , and finally settling in the south of France at a house near Sommières . He was married four times in all. In 1947 he went to Córdoba, Argentina , where for the next eighteen months he gave lectures on cultural topics for the British Council . He returned to London in the summer of 1948 , around the time that Marshal Tito broke ties with Stalin 's Cominform , and Durrell was posted to Belgrade . He died of a stroke at his house in Sommières. MAJOR WORKS Novels
Travel
Poetry
Drama
Humor
Letters and essays
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