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Olivia Manning

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: March 01 1908

Died: 2222 07 19801980

Olivia Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing. Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place.
In August 1939 she married R.D. Smith , a British Council lecturer posted in Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently in Greece, Egypt and Palestine as the Nazis over-ran Eastern Europe. Her experiences formed the basis for her best known work, the six novels making up "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy," known collectively as Fortunes of War. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death in 1980, when an adaptation of "Fortunes of War" was televised in 1987.

Olivia Manning

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: March 01 1908

Died: 2222 07 19801980

Olivia Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing. Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place.
In August 1939 she married R.D. Smith , a British Council lecturer posted in Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently in Greece, Egypt and Palestine as the Nazis over-ran Eastern Europe. Her experiences formed the basis for her best known work, the six novels making up "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy," known collectively as Fortunes of War. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death in 1980, when an adaptation of "Fortunes of War" was televised in 1987.

Books from Olivia Manning

The Balkan Trilogy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

School for Love

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Danger Tree

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Battle Lost and Won

The Sum of Things

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Spoilt City

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Friends and Heroes

4.2/5 ( ratings)

La gran fortuna

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Doves of Venus

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Remarkable Expedition: Story of Stanley's Rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa

3.6/5 ( ratings)

A Different Face

Winter's Tales 15

The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

The Spoilt City (Balkan Trilogy, #2)

The Balkan Trilogy (Fortunes of War, #1-3)

The Levant Trilogy

The Rain Forest

The Camperlea Girls

Friends and Heroes (Balkan Trilogy, #3)

The Play Room