Carey Harrison

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name = Carey Harrison

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birthdate = 1944
birthplace = London, England
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occupation = Novelist, playwright, radio dramatist
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Carey Harrison (born 1944) is an English novelist and dramatist.

Life

Harrison was born in London to actors Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, [cite book | last = Golden | first = Eve | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | date = 2002 | location = | pages = | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=zCV_VyO8qJwC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0813122511] and raised in Los Angeles and New York, where he attended the Lycée Français. Subsequently he attended Sunningdale Preparatory School, Harrow School, and Jesus College, Cambridge.

His first play, "Dante Kaputt", was staged at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, in 1966. [cite book | last = Parker | first = John | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Who's who in the theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage | publisher = Pitman | date = 1972 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-273-31528-5] Subsequent plays were premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and the Stables Theatre in Manchester, where Harrison was Resident Playwright during 1969 and '70. His drama output for radio and television includes numerous award-winning plays, [cite book | last = Horner | first = Rosalie | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Inside BBC Television: A Year Behind the Camera | publisher = Webb & Bower | date = 1983 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-906671-77-9] among them the WorldPlay award in 2005 for the best play from an English-language broadcaster. This play, "Hitler in Therapy", was Harrison's 100th drama to be recorded in a UK studio.

17 hours of Harrison's teleplays have been seen on "Masterpiece Theatre", including the miniseries "Freud", [cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = Freud, Warts and All, Sits for the Camera | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = New York Times | date = 1985-01-20 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05EED9173BF933A15752C0A963948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | accessdate = 2008-08-07] .

He is the author of 16 novels, most notably "Richard's Feet", published by Holt in the U.S. and by Heinemann in Britain, [cite news | last = McDowell | first = Edwin | coauthors = | title = Book Notes | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = New York Times | date = 1991-01-02 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D7123CF931A35752C0A967958260 | accessdate = 2008-08-07] winner of the Encore Award from the UK Society of Authors. Harrison has received numerous grants from the UK Arts Council, and his prizes include Sony awards, the Giles Cooper Award, the Prix Marulic, the UK Writer's Guild Award for Best Play, the Prix Italia Silver Award and the Best Play award from the Berlin Society for the Arts, as well as two nominations (2005 and 2007) for the Pushcart Prize for Journalism. His work has been translated into thirteen languages. His output includes published translations from French, Italian, German and Spanish authors, and performed translations from the works of Pirandello, Goldoni, Feydeau and the late Gert Hofmann; most recently he published "20 Poems" from the Arabic of Firas Sulaiman, in "Banipal", the UK magazine of contemporary Arabic writing. Since 2005 he has contributed a monthly essay on linguistic trends in The Vocabula Review. He has also been a book reviewer for numerous newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle [cite book | last = Webber | first = Elizabeth | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions | publisher = Merriam-Webster | date = 1999 | location = | pages = 422 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=ACB81ZeNN5sC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-87779-628-9] , the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times. [cite news | last = Harrison | first = Carey | coauthors = | title = One Word: Plasticine | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = New York Times | date = 2003-03-23 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E7DA113EF930A15750C0A9659C8B63&scp=8&sq=%22carey%20harrison%22&st=cse | accessdate = 2008-08-07]

Harrison lives in upstate New York with his wife and youngest daughter, and is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Notable works

Novels

*"Freud" (1984)
*"Richard's Feet" (1990)
*"Cley" (1991)
*"Egon" (1993)
*"Flatbush and Vine" (2005)
*"Dog's Mercury" (2005)
*"A Perfect Innocent" (2005)
*"Justice" (2005)
*"Personal Assistant" (2006)
*"Clear To Kill" (2006)
*"As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage" (2006)

Plays

*"Dante Kaputt!" (1966)
*"Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography" (1968)
*"Servant of Two Masters" (from Goldoni) (1978)
*"In a Cottage Hospital" (1969)
*"Wedding Night" (from Gert Hoffmann) (1969)
*"Lovers" (1970)
*"Shakespeare Farewell" (1970)
*"Manoeuvres" (with Jeremy Paul) (1974) [cite journal | last = Johns | first = Eric | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Manoeuvres | journal = British Theatre Review | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = 1974 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=-cNWAAAAIAAJ | doi = | id = | accessdate = ]
*"Madcap" (from Pirandello) (1976)
*"I Never Killed My German" (1979)
*"A Short Walk To The Stars" (with Jeremy Paul) (1979)
*"Visitors" (with Jeremy Paul) (1980)
*"A Night on the Tor" (1980)
*"A Suffolk Trilogy: 3 Plays for Radio" (1982)
*"Who's Playing God?" (1983)
*"From the Lion Rock & the Sea Voyage Trilogy: Plays for Radio" (1989)
*"Mr Pope's Toilet" (1990)
*"The Water-Cure" (1991)
*"Newton In Love" (1992)
*"Last Thoughts Upon St. Paules" (1993)
*"Self-Portrait With Dog" (1993)
*"A Walk in the Bois" (1993)
*"The Empress Wu, The Concubine Wang" (1994)
*"St. Agnes' Eve" (1995)
*"For A Son" (1995)
*"The Psychiatrist's Tale" (1996)
*"East of the Sun" (2000)
*"Hitler in Therapy" (2005)
*"Breakfast with Stalin" (2008)
*"A Cook's Tour of Communism" (2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365511/ Carey Harrison] at the Internet Movie Database