Global InformationGreville Texidor information
Greville Texidor | |
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| Born | Margaret Greville Foster 1902 Wolverhampton, England |
| Died | 20 August 1964 (aged 61–62) Blue Mountains, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer of short stories, novellas |
| Literary movement | Existentialism |
| Notable works | "Home Front," These Dark Glasses |
Margaret Greville Foster (1902 — 20 August 1964), best known by her pen name Greville Texidor, was an English fiction writer, notable for her work written while living in New Zealand from 1940 to 1948.
After traveling the world as a performer and fighting alongside her husband for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, Texidor went into exile in New Zealand with her family during the early years of World War II, pushed out of England due to her husband's German background and the couple's radical politics.
In New Zealand, she began writing fiction and joined Auckland's literary community. Her short stories and novellas, compiled posthumously in the collection In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot: Selected Fiction, are considered an important contribution to the existentialist period in New Zealand's literary canon.