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Victoria Glendinning CBE FRSL (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography.

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rdfs:comment	Victoria Glendinning CBE FRSL (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography. (en) Victoria Glendinning, CBE (Sheffield, 23 april 1937) is een Brits schrijfster van biografieën en romans en literatuurcritica. Ze is voorzitter van de Engelse afdeling van de PEN-club en vicepresident van de Royal Society of Literature. Gelndinning groeide op in York en studeerde aan Somerville College, Oxford. Daar trouwde ze in haar tweede jaar met haar docent Spaanse letterkunde, Nigel Glendinning. Met hem kreeg ze vier kinderen. Glendinning is als biografe vooral bekend van haar werk over Vita Sackville-West en haar biografie van Leonard Woolf. (nl) Victoria Glendinning, född 23 april 1937 i Sheffield, South Yorkshire, är en brittisk författare av främst biografier. Glendinning föddes i en kväkarfamilj i Sheffield. Hennes far var . Glendinning växte upp nära York och studerade moderna språk vid Oxfords universitet. Hon gifte sig med professor Nigel Glendinning 1958. De skilde sig 1981. Hennes andra man dog i Parkinsons sjukdom 1994. En av hennes söner är Matthew Glendinning, med vem hon tillsammans med skrev boken Sons and Mothers. En annan av hennes söner är matematikern . (sv) Victoria Glendinning (Sheffield, 23 d'abril de 1937) és una biògrafa, crítica, locutora i escriptora anglesa. Ocupa els càrrecs de vicepresidenta d'honor del PEN anglès i de vicepresidenta de la Royal Society of Literature. És l'única persona que ha guanyat dues vegades el (actual premi Costa Book) a la millor biografia, pels seus treballs sobre Vita Sackville-West (1983) i Anthony Trollope (1992). Va guanyar el el 1981 per la seva biografia d'Edith Sitwell. El mateix any i per la mateixa obra, també va rebre el Premi Duff Cooper, que reconeix anualment les millors obres de no-ficció. (ca) Victoria Glendinning (* 23. April 1937 in Sheffield) ist eine britische Schriftstellerin und Biographin. Glendinning stammt aus einer Quäker-Familie. Ihr Vater war der britische Bankier Frederic Seebohm. Glendinning wuchs bei York auf, ging auf die Millfield School in Somerset und studierte moderne Sprachen an der Universität Oxford mit Abschluss. Außerdem erwarb sie eine Ausbildung als Sozialarbeiterin mit psychiatrischer Komponente. Danach widmete sie sich der Kindererziehung, bevor sie Ende der 1960er Jahre zu schreiben anfing, zunächst für die Zeitschrift Nova und dann, nachdem 1969 ihre erste Biographie erschienen war, für kurze Zeit für das Times Literary Supplement. In den 1970er Jahren zog sie aufgrund des Stellungswechsels ihres Mannes nach Dublin, Ende der 1970er Jahre war sie wi (de)
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