Nichlas Monsarrat – Wikipedia

Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FrSL RNVR (born March 22, 1910 in Liverpool, † August 8, 1979 in London) was a British author.

Monsarrat was a son of the surgeon Keith Waldegrave Monsarrat and his wife Margaret Ada Turney. He had two sisters and two brothers. After his school days in his hometown, Monsarrat only went to Winchester and later switched to Trinity College in Cambridge to study law. After his successful completion (B.A. Jur.) He worked in a Solicitor’s office for two years. Throughout the time he had tried a novel; In 1934 he published his successful debut Think of Tomorrow .

Monsarrat gave up his job and only devoted himself to writing. Between 1934 and 1939 he was able to publish four novels; A play that was created at the same time was less successful. At the beginning of the Second World War, Monsarrat joined the Royal Navy in 1939, even though Pacific, and initially served in a medical unit. Later he was moved as an officer on escorted military pension convoys and mostly completed his service in the Atlantic. At the end of the war, Monsarrat held the rank of a frigate captain (Lieutenant Commander).

King George VI. In 1946 Monsarrat transferred diplomatic tasks in Johannesburg (South Africa) and in 1953 he moved to Ottawa (Canada) with a similar area of ​​responsibility. Under Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, Monsarrat resigned from all offices and settled in Saint Peter Port on Guernsey in 1959. He devoted himself to his literary works on the channel island. On the occasion of a visit to his publisher on Fleet Street (London), he became acquainted with journalist Ann Miller in 1960. In 1961 the two got married and had two daughters. Later Monsarrat settled with his family in San Lawrenz on Gozo (Malta).

Monsarrat fell ill with cancer and died on August 8, 1979 in London. According to his last will, he received a sea burial from the Royal Navy. On the HMS Scylla (Leander class) carried out this ceremony from Graham Savage and from Stephen Knight.

Monsarrat claimed that during his service in the Second World War he had seen the flying Dutch ship at night, almost in the same place as the English King Georg V.

In his autobiography, Monsarrat known that the Invergordon Meuterei (1931) fascinated him and politicized in the left. Monsarrat’s autobiographically colored fourth novel, which has the disillusionment of a young, idealistic author on the subject, is already indication of a certain political disappointment.

Monsarrat’s novels often emerged from the autobiographical experience. In his best -known novel, Cruel Atlantic , the young naval officer Keith Lockhart becomes his alter ego. He processed the death of his brother Deny, who had been killed in Egypt My brother Denys . The subject of fundraising and the marketing of tragic life fates worked on Monsarrat in his novel The story of Esther Costello . After his marinelate novels, he took part in 1963 Smith and Jones A work in which he dealt with the Cambridge Five, especially with Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.

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Autobiographical

• My brother Denys . 1948.
• Life is a Four Letter Word . Cassell, London 1966/70.

1. Breaking In . 1966.
2. Breaking Out . 1970.

Roman

• Think of tomorrow . London 1934.
• At first sight . London 1935.
• The whipping boy . Pan Books, London 1969 (EA London 1937)
• This is the schoolroom . Casell, London 1947 (EA London 1939)
• The Corvette-Trilogy . Cassell, London

1. H.M. Corvette . 1942.
2. East Coast Corvette . 1943.
3. Corvette Command . 1944.

• Leave cancelled . Knopf, New York 1945.
  • German: Precious hours . Heyne, Munich 1965 (translated by Helmut Degner, EA Hamburg 1956)
• H.M. Frigate . House of Stratus, Cove 2014, ISBN 978-0-7551-4345-0.
• Depends on what you mean by love . London 1947.
• HMS Malborough will enter harbour . London 1947.
• The Cruel Sea . 1951.
  • German: Cruel Atlantic . Knowledge Verlagsgesellschaft, Herrsching 1989, ISBN 3-8075-0002-2.
• The Story of Esther Costello . 1952. ^[first]
• Castle Garac . 1955.
• The Tribe That Lost Its Head . 1956.
• Richer Than All His Tribe . 1968.
• The nylonpirates . 1960.
  • German: The nylon pirates . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964 (translated by Edmund Th. Kauer, EA Hamburg 1961)
• The white Raja . 1961.
• The time before this . 1962.
• To Stratford with love . 1963.
• Smith and Jones . 1963.
• Something to hide . 1963.
• A fair day’s work . 1964.
• The pillow fight . 1965.
  • German: Pillow battle . Zsolnay, Vienna 1965 (translated by Edmund Th. Kauer)
• Richer than all his tribe . 1968.
  • German: The black lion . Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1972 (translated by Waldemar Kabus)
• The Parish Priest of Malta . 1973.
  • German: The chaplain of Malta . P. Zsolnay, Hamburg 1975 (translated by Luise Wasserthal-Zucari and Ilse Winger)
• Master Mariner . Cassell, London 1978/81

1. Running Proud . 1978.
2. Darken ship . 1981.

Collecting volumes

• Three corvettes . Cassell, London 1975 (EA London 1955)
  Inhalt: H.M. Corvette. – East Coast Corvette. – Corvette Command.
• „That ship that died of shame“ and other stories . London 1959
  Inhalt: The ship that died of shame. – Oh to be in England! – The reconciliation. – The list. – The thousand islands snatch. – Up the garden path. – The Man who wanted a Mark IX. – I was there. – The dinner party. – Licensed to kill. – The Postscript.

Play

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• The boy’s book of the sea . London 1954.
• Canada from coast to coast 1955.
• The boy’s book of the Commonwealth . London 1957.

TV

Harm

• Christine L. Krueger: Encyclopedia of British writers. 19th and 20th century . Facts on File, London 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4670-0, S. 257.
• Joseph Lash: Helen and the Teacher . Addison-Wesley, New York 1997.

1. ↑ The environment of Helen Keller is said to have considered a judicial lawsuit at the time. See: Joseph Lash: Helen and Teacher , S. 732–738.
2. ↑ Alternative title The Golden Virgin .