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Cyril Vernon Connolly (* 10. September 1903 in Coventry, England; † 26. November 1974 in London, England) war ein britischer Schriftsteller, Literaturkritiker und Journalist
Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful ...
Cyril Connolly was the chair of the Booker Prize in 1972 and the editor of Horizon magazine, where he befriended many famous writers. He wrote Enemies of Promise, a memoir of his literary failures, and coined the definition of literature and journalism.
Cyril Connolly (born September 10, 1903, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died November 26, 1974, London) was an English critic, novelist, and man of letters, founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of contemporary literature that was a major influence in Britain in its time (1939–50).
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Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1903. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford he was a regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s. Connolly also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Stephen Spender and later was literary editor of the The Observer.
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18. Mai 2018 · Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was a British novelist and literary and social critic, known for his autobiographical works Enemies of Promise and The Unquiet Grave. He also wrote a novel, The Rock Pool, about a young Englishman's encounter with a lesbian community in France.
1. Jan. 2016 · All of which takes us back to the great mid-century literary critic Cyril Connolly’s Enemies of Promise, an attempt to identify, albeit from the vantage point of 1938, some of the snares that...
