Galsworthy
Name: Galsworthy (hohngalsworthy)
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1867-1933
Nationality: British
Awards: 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature
John Galsworthy Sui (hohn galsworthy, 1867-1933) was a British novelist and playwright. Born into a wealthy middle-class family in London. His father was a barrister in London and ran several companies. Galsworthy graduated from the Law Department of Nianjin University and qualified as a lawyer in 1890. From 1891 to 1893, he traveled in Europe and met Joseph Conrad, who became an irreplaceable friend.
Galsworthy began to create in 1895. He studied under the masters of Russian and French realism. In 1897, he published novels, poems and literary works. It was not until the publication of "The Pharisees of the Island Country" (1904) that he attracted people's attention. The novel "The Man of Industry" and his first play "The Silver Box" published in 1906 brought widespread reputation to the author and established Galsworthy's status in the literary world. After that, he published the trilogy of novels "The Forsyte Family": "The Man of Property" (1906), "Ride the Tiger" (1920), and "Rent" (1921); the trilogy "Modern Comedy": "The White Ape" (1924), "The Key" (1926), "Swan Song" (1928) and the "Epilogue" trilogy: "The Waitress" (1931), "The Flowering Wilderness" (1932), "The River" Over There" (1933). The first two trilogies each have two short vignettes.
Galsworthy's major drama, novel, poetry and literary works include "The Silver Box" (1906), "The Struggle" (1909), "Justice" (1910), "The Dove" (1912), " "Skin Game" (1920) and "Loyalty" (1922), etc. These plays were extremely successful when they were staged in the 1960s and 1970s.
Galsworthy was a prolific writer. He created 17 novels, 26 plays, 12 short stories, essays, poems and collections of letters during his lifetime. During his lifetime, he received honorary degrees from many universities in the United States and served as president of PEN International. Received the Medal of Honor in 1929. He is considered an outstanding inheritor of the realist tradition in British literature, and together with Wells and Bennett, is known as the three masters of British realism in the 20th century. His novels do not use bizarre and exaggerated techniques, but reveal the author's praise and criticism in real descriptions. He pays attention to shaping typical characters, his writing style is natural and smooth, and the storyline is full of twists and turns. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 in view of his outstanding achievements in literature, especially "the remarkable art of his description - an art that reaches its peak in The Forsyte Family".
Main novels, poems and literary works include:
"The Forsytes" trilogy: "The Man of Property", "Ride the Tiger", and "Rent";
"Modern Comedy" trilogy: "The White Ape", "The Key", "Swan Song";
"Epilogue" trilogy: "The Waitress", "The Blossoming Wilderness" ", "Beyond the River"
Drama, novels, poetry and literary works: "Silver Box", "Struggle", "Justice", "Pigeon", "Skin Game", "Loyalty"