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Anthony Powell
CH CBE
Powell in 1934
Born
Anthony Dymoke Powell (1905-12-21)21 December 1905 London, England
Died
28 March 2000(2000-03-28) (aged 94) Whatley, Somerset, England
Occupation
Novelist
Notable works
A Dance to the Music of Time
Spouse
Lady Violet Pakenham
(m. 1934)
Children
2, including Tristram
Anthony Dymoke PowellCH CBE (/ˈpoʊəl/POH-əl;[1] 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of television and radio dramatisations. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."[2]
^Michael Barber, Anthony Powell: A Life (London: Duckworth Overlook, 2004), 291
^"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. 5 January 2008.
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