Anthony Hope
1863
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1933
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Balliol College, St John's School, Leatherhead
occupation: barrister, writer, novelist, poet lawyer
award received: Knight Bachelor
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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