Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker
Date personale
Născut	24 mai 1932 Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Decedat	12 aprilie 2016 (83 de ani) Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Cauza decesului	boala Parkinson
Copii	Elsa Håstad[*][[Elsa Håstad (diplomată suedeză)|​]]
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit
Ocupație	dramaturg scriitor scenarist actor de televiziune[*]​ poet
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză
Studii	University College School[*][[University College School (school in Camden, UK)|​]]
Opere semnificative	The Kitchen[*][[The Kitchen |​]]
Note
Premii	Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[*][[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (award of the Royal Society of Literature)|​]] Knight Bachelor[*][[Knight Bachelor (title granted to a man who has been knighted by the British monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry)|​]]
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Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (n. 24 mai 1932, Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit – d. 12 aprilie 2016, Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit) a fost un cunoscut dramaturg englez. A scris peste 50 de piese de teatru, patru volume de proză scurtă, două volume de eseuri, multe articole în presă și o carte despre jurnalism, o carte pentru copii, câteva poezii etc. Piesele sale au fost traduse în 20 de limbi și au fost jucate pe plan mondial.

Scrieri

Wesker a scris mai multe piese de teatru, cărți de ficțiune și de non-ficțiune.

Piese de teatru

• The Kitchen, 1957 ISBN: 978-1-84943-757-8
• Chicken Soup with Barley, 1958 ISBN: 978-1-4081-5661-2
• Roots, 1959 ISBN: 978-1-4725-7461-9
• I'm Talking about Jerusalem, 1960
• Menace, 1961 (pentru televiziune)
• Chips with Everything, 1962
• The Nottingham Captain, 1962
• Four Seasons, 1965
• Their Very Own and Golden City, 1966
• The Friends, 1970
• The Old Ones, 1970
• The Journalists, 1972 ISBN: 0-14-048133-8
• The Wedding Feast, 1974
• Shylock, 1976
• Love Letters on Blue Paper, 1976
• One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round, 1978
• Phoenix, 1980
• Caritas, 1980 ISBN: 978-0-224-02020-6
• Voices on the Wind, 1980
• Breakfast, 1981
• Sullied Hand, 1981
• Four Portraits – Of Mothers, 1982
• Annie Wobbler, 1982
• Yardsale, 1983
• Cinders, 1983
• Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon?, 1986
• When God Wanted a Son, 1986
• Lady Othello, 1987
• Little Old Lady & Shoeshine, 1987
• Badenheim 1939, 1987
• Shoeshine, 1987
• The Mistress, 1988
• Beorhtel's Hill, 1988 (piesă pentru Basildon)
• Men Die Women Survive, 1990
• Letter To A Daughter, 1990
• Blood Libel, 1991
• Wild Spring, 1992
• Bluey, 1993
• The Confession, 1993
• Circles of Perception, 1996
• Break, My Heart, 1997
• Denial, 1997
• Barabbas, 2000
• The Kitchen Musical, 2000
• Groupie, 2001 ISBN: 1-84943-741-6
• Longitude, 2002
• The Rocking Horse, 2008 (comandată de BBC World Service)
• Joy and Tyranny, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84943-546-8

Ficțiune

• Six Sundays in January, Jonathan Cape, 1971
• Love Letters on Blue Paper, Jonathan Cape, 1974
• Said the Old Man to the Young Man, Jonathan Cape, 1978
• Fatlips, Writers and Readers Harper & Row, 1978
• The King's Daughters, Quartet Books, 1998
• Honey, Pocket Books, 2006

Non-ficțiune

• Distinctions, 1985 (colecție de eseuri)
• Fears of Fragmentation, Jonathan Cape, 1971
• Say Goodbye You May Never See Them Again, Jonathan Cape, 1974
• Journey Into Journalism, Writers & Readers, 1977
• The Dusty Wesker Cook Book, Chatto & Windus, 1987
• As Much as I Dare, Century Random House, 1994 (autobiografie)
• The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel, Quartet Books, 1997
• Wesker On Theatre, 2010 (colecție de eseuri) ISBN: 978-1-84943-376-1
• Ambivalences, Oberon Books, 2011

Lectură suplimentară

• Ambivalences, Oberon Books, 2011 ISBN: 1-84943-334-8
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Chambers, Edinburgh, 2002) ISBN: 0-550-10051-2
• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford 2004)
• De Ornellas, Kevin (2005). David Malcolm, ed. „British and Irish short-fiction writers, 1945-2000”. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 319. ISBN 978-0787681371. 

Legături externe

• Site web oficial
• Arnold Wesker Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
• Arnold Wesker la Internet Movie Database
• "Arnold's Choice". Interview with Arnold Wesker, by Kirsty Young. Desert Island Discs. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2006; repeated 22 December 2006.
• Interview with Arnold Wesker – British Library sound recording
• "Sir Arnold Wesker, British playwright, dies aged 83", BBC News, 13 April 2016
• "Prolific British playwright Arnold Wesker dies at age 83", Daily Mail, 13 April 2016
• Chris, Moncrieff, "Obituary: Sir Arnold Wesker, playwright", The Scotsman, 13 April 2016
• "ir Arnold Wesker", The Royal Society of Literature