biography
pronunciation:
[golzwerthee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1933)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Kingston Hill, Surrey, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1890, but chose to travel and set up as a writer. From the start he was a moralist and humanitarian, but his novels were also to be documentaries of their time. The six linked novels comprising The Forsyte Saga (1906–28), recording the life of the affluent British middle-class before 1914, began a new vogue for ‘serial’ novels. His plays (31 in all) illustrate his reforming zeal and his interest in social and ethical problems; they include Strife (1909), Justice (1910), and The Skin Game (1920). He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1929 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. |
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