Name Christine Brooke-Rose | Role Writer | |
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Died March 21, 2012, Cabrieres-d'Avignon, France Education Somerville College, Oxford Books Amalgamemnon, Textermination, Xorandor, Life - End Of, The Christine Similar People Jonathan Culler, Stefan Collini, Richard Rorty, Umberto Eco, Jerzy Pietrkiewicz | ||
Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (16 January 1923 – 21 March 2012) was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.
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Biography
Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father and American-Swiss mother. She was brought up mainly in Brussels, and educated there, at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. During World War II she worked at Bletchley Park as a WAAF in intelligence, later completing her university degree. She then worked for a time in London as a literary journalist and scholar. She was married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park; to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz; and briefly to Claude Brooke. On separating from Pietrkiewicz in 1968 she moved to France, teaching at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988. After she retired she lived in the south of France.
Her novel Remake (1996) is an autobiographical novel:
She shared the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for Such (1966).
She was also known as a translator from French, in particular of works by Robbe-Grillet.