Dame Muriel Spark

The centenary of the birth of the author Dame Muriel Spark, including a landmark exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, the campaign to honour Elsie Inglis, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, with a statue in her home city of Edinburgh, and this year's 150th anniversary of the Edinburgh Seven campaign to allow women to study at Edinburgh University have all generated significant interest.

NICOLA Sturgeon will join writers Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin at an event to celebrate the life of author Dame Muriel Spark.

He said the city is well known as the birthplace of literary giants from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott to Dame Muriel Spark and Irvine Welsh.

Synopsis: Dame Muriel Spark, DBE (1 February 1918--13 April 2006)[1] was an award-winning Scottish novelist who had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems, stories, plays, essays, and, most notably, novels.

(1.) The source is "Dame Muriel Spark" (The Telegraph 17 Apr.

"Give me a child at an impressionable age and that child is mine for life," observed Dame Muriel Spark, the British novelist.

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Scottish-born novelist Dame Muriel Spark died on Thursday (13 April) in Tuscany at the age of 88.

Tributes have been paid to writer Dame Muriel Spark, who has died in Italy.