Her novel Remake (1996) is an autobiographical novel: She was also known as a translator, winning the Arts Council Translation Prize in 1969 for her translation of Alain Robbe-Grillet's Dans le labyrinthe ( In the Labyrinth). She shared the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for Such (1966). Work īrooke-Rose later recalled that during her time at Bletchley Park, being exposed to "that otherness" helped her in her journey to become a novelist, by making her aware of the viewpoint of the "Other".
In 1988, she retired and moved to the south of France, near Avignon. In 1975, while teaching linguistics and English literature at the University of Paris, she became professor of English and American literature and literary theory. On separating from Pietrkiewicz in 1968, she moved to France, teaching at the University of Paris, Vincennes from 1968 to 1988. Taylor was in charge of the American liaison section at Bletchley, and was later Counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. This led to the end of her marriage with Bax, although Taylor's marriage endured for some years thereafter. While serving at Bletchley Park and married to Bax, she had an affair with an American army officer Telford Taylor, who was himself married. She was married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz and (briefly) to her cousin, Claude Brooke. She then worked for a time in London as a literary journalist and scholar. She completed her university degree, reading English at Somerville College, Oxford. Her autobiographical novel Remake records her life at BP. Then aged 18, she was sent to Hut 3 at Bletchley Park, where she assessed intercepted German messages.
When the WAAF commanding officer heard she was fluent in German, she was immediately commissioned and called to London where she was interviewed by Frederick Winterbotham she translated a piece of a technical message, floundering only on Klappenschrank (part of an army field telephone). Initially stationed at RAF Thornaby in Yorkshire where she wrote up flight records for Coastal Command. ĭuring World War II, she joined the WAAF. She was brought up mainly in Brussels with her maternal grandparents, but also studied at St Stephen's College Broadstairs before attending Somerville College, Oxford (MA) and University College, London (PhD). Life Ĭhristine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father, Alfred Northbrook Rose, and American- Swiss mother, Evelyn (née Brooke). Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (16 January 1923 – 21 March 2012 ) was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her experimental novels.
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