Carter, Angela Olive
Carter, Angela Olive , née Stalker ( 1940 – 92 ),English novelist, poet, and essayist, born in Eastbourne and educated at Bristol University. Her work is imbued with a keen sense of the macabre and the wittily surreal and draws heavily on symbolism and themes derived from traditional fairy tales and folk myths. Her first two books, a volume of poetry (Unicorn, 1966 ) and a thriller (Shadow Dance, 1966 ), were followed by The Magic Toyshop ( 1967 , filmed 1986 ), which associated her with the tradition of magic realism and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Several Perceptions ( 1968 ) won the Somerset Maugham Award . Succeeding novels developed further a characteristic neo-Gothic ambience, often underpinned by a strong, but never intrusive, feminist sensibility: Heroes and Villains ( 1969 ), set in the aftermath of nuclear conflict, the more conventional Love ( 1971 ),...
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