Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 Maret 1892 – 2 Juni 1962), biasanya dikenal sebagai Vita Sackville-West, adalah seorang penulis Inggris dan desainer taman.
Lady Nicolson | |
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Lahir | Victoria Mary Sackville-West 9 Maret 1892 Knole House, Kent, Inggris |
Meninggal | 2 Juni 1962 Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, Inggris | (umur 70)
Pekerjaan | Novelis, penyair, desainer taman |
Kebangsaan | Inggris |
Periode | 1917–1960 |
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Orang tua |
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Dia adalah seorang novelis, penyair, dan jurnalis yang sukses, serta penulis surat dan penulis buku harian yang produktif. Dia menerbitkan lebih dari selusin koleksi puisi selama hidupnya dan 13 novel. Dia dua kali dianugerahi Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: pada tahun 1927 untuk epik pastoralnya, The Land, dan pada tahun 1933 untuk Collected Puisi. Dia adalah inspirasi untuk protagonis dari Orlando: A Biography, oleh teman dan kekasihnya yang terkenal, Virginia Woolf.
Dia memiliki kolom lama di The Observer (1946–1961) dan dikenang karena taman terkenal di Sissinghurst yang dibuat bersama suaminya, Sir Harold Nicolson.
Karya
suntingPuisi
sunting- Chatterton (1909)
- A Dancing Elf (1912)
- Constantinople: Eight Poems (1915)
- Poems of West and East (1917)
- Orchard and Vineyard (1921)
- The Land (1926)
- King's Daughter (1929)
- Sissinghurst (1931)
- Invitation to Cast out Care (1931)
- Collected Poems: Volume 1 (1933)
- Solitude (1938)
- The Garden (1946)
Novel
sunting- Heritage (1919)
- The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921)
- The Heir (1922)
- Challenge (1923)
- Grey Wethers (1923)
- Seducers in Ecuador (1924)
- Passenger to Teheran[1] (1926)
- The Edwardians (1930)
- All Passion Spent (1931)
- The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler (1932)
- Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932) - short stories
- Family History (1932)
- The Dark Island (1934)
- Grand Canyon[2] (1942)
- Devil at Westease (1947)
- The Easter Party (1953)
- No Signposts in the Sea (1961)
Buku anak
sunting- A Note of Explanation (written for Queen Mary's Dolls' House in 1924, published posthumously in 2017)
Terjemahan
sunting- Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino, by Rainer Maria Rilke trns. V. Sackville-West (Hogarth Press, London, 1931)
Biografi dan non-fiksi
sunting- "Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea" (Gerald Howe 1927)
- Passenger to Teheran (Hogarth Press 1926, reprinted Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2007, ISBN 978-1-84511-343-8)
- Knole and the Sackvilles (1922)
- Saint Joan of Arc (Doubleday 1936, reprinted M. Joseph 1969)
- English Country Houses (William Collins, 1941, illustrated)
- Pepita (Doubleday, 1937, reprinted Hogarth Press 1970)
- The Eagle and The Dove (M. Joseph 1943)
- Twelve Days: an account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains of South-western Persia (first published UK 1927; Doubleday Doran 1928; M. Haag 1987, reprinted Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2009 as Twelve Days in Persia)
- Country Notes in Wartime, 1940, (The Hogarth Press)[3]
Referensi
sunting- ^ "Passenger to Teheran".
- ^ "Grand Canyon".
- ^ Janik, Vicki K.; Janik, Del Ivan; Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath, ed. (2002). Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide (dalam bahasa Inggris). Greenwood Publishing Group. hlm. 283. ISBN 978-0-313-31030-0.
Sumber
sunting- Carney, Michael: Stoker: The Life of Hilda Matheson, privately published, Llangynog, 1999
- Ghanī, Sīrūs & Ghani, Cyrus: Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power, London: .B.Tauris, 2000
- Glendinning, Victoria: Vita. A Biography of Vita Sackville-West, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983
- Glendinning, Victoria: Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983
- Lord, Tony (2000). Gardening at Sissinghurst. Frances Lincoln & National Trust.
- Nicolson, Nigel: "Introduction" from A Passenger to Tehran, London: I.B Tauris, 2007
- Sackville-West, Vita: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings, Preface by Nigel Nicolson, St. Martin's Press, 2015
Daftar Pustaka
sunting- Robert Cross and Ann Ravenscroft-Hulme: Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography (Oak Knoll Press, 1999); ISBN 1-58456-004-5
- Eberle, Iwona: Eve with a Spade: Women, Gardens, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Grin, 2011); ISBN 978-3-640-84355-8
- Peggy Wolf: Sternenlieder und Grabgesänge. Vita Sackville-West: Eine kommentierte Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen von ihr und über sie 1930–2005. (Daphne-Verlag, Göttingen, 2006); ISBN 3-89137-041-5
Pranala luar
sunting- Fuller list of Vita Sackville-West's publicationsDiarsipkan 2011-07-19 di Wayback Machine.
- Potret {{{name}}} di National Portrait Gallery, London
- Sackville-West family tree on the National Portrait Gallery, London website
- "Materi arsip tentang Vita Sackville-West". UK National Archives.
- Karya Vita Sackville-West di Project Gutenberg
- Karya Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West di Faded Page (Canada)
- Karya oleh/tentang Vita Sackville-West di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
- Karya Vita Sackville-West di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
- Vita Sackville-West Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.