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The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter may refer to: Books * ''The Lost Daughter'' (novel), a 2006 novel by Elena Ferrante * ''The Lost Daughter'', a 1999 novel by Joanna Hines * ''The Lost Daughter'', a 2011 novel by Lucretia Grindle * ''The Lost Daughter'', a 2017 novel by David Ashton * ''The Lost Daughter and Other Stories of the Heart'', an 1857 short story collection by Caroline Lee Hentz * ''The Lost Daughter'', a 2013 memoir by Mary Williams Film and television * ''The Lost Daughter'' (film), a 2021 film based on Elena Ferrante's novel * '' Palace 3: The Lost Daughter'', a 2014 Chinese television series * ''The Lost Daughter'', a 1997 TV film directed by Roger Cardinal * "The Lost Daughter", a 1997 episode of the German TV series ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' * "The Lost Daughter", a 2018 episode of the Philippine television drama ''Onanay ''Onanay'' (International title: ''The Way to Your Heart'') is a Philippine television drama family series broadcast by GMA Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Daughter (novel)
''The Lost Daughter'' is a novel published by writer Elena Ferrante in 2006, in Italian (original title: ''La Figlia Oscura)'', and translated to English by Ann Goldstein in 2008. The novel was adapted to cinema in the film of the same name, in Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson. Plot Leda is a forty-eight-year-old English teacher who decides to spend the summer holidays on the Ionian coast. Her twenty-year-old daughters, Bianca and Marta, are in Canada with her ex-husband Gianni, so Leda is free to spend time alone. After renting a small penthouse with a sea view, the woman goes to the beach and begins her vacation. Already on the first day she notices a young mother with her little daughter and the two impress Leda not only because they are decidedly more refined than the rest of their rough family, but also because she sees in them echoes of her own past. As the days go by, Leda continues to observe the Neapol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Hines
Joanna Hines is a British author of fiction and non-fiction. She has published a number of acclaimed novels, including ''Improvising Carla'' which was dramatised for UK television. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at St Mary's University. Her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, was the first wife of writer Lawrence Durrell Lawrence George Durrell (; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial pare .... She now publishes non-fiction under her maiden name, Joanna Hodgkin. Works Fiction *''Dora's Room'' London : Coronet Books, 1993. , *''The Fifth Secret'' London : Hodder, 1995 *''Autumn of Strangers'' London : Hodder, 1997 *''Improvising Carla'' London : Simon & Schuster, 2000. , *''Surface Tension'' London : Simon & Schuster, 2002. , *''Angels of the Flood'' London : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucretia Grindle
Lucretia Walsh Grindle (born May 10, 1960) is an American author of mystery fiction. She is signed to Macmillan Publishers. Early life Lucretia Grindle is one of four children of newspaper reporter turned entrepreneur Paul Davidson Grindle and his wife Patricia Walsh. She has a sister and two brothers. She was born in Boston MA, and spent her formative years living with her family either at her parents' American home in Sherborn, Massachusetts, or at their British home in the village of Benenden in Kent. Her mother, who was born on the Apache Reservation below Jerome, Arizona, and who before her marriage was the head show girl at Ringling Brother's and Barnum and Bailey circus where she was the first woman to feature and solo in a mixed act of large cats, was the director of the Moat House Riding Academy also in Benenden. Grindle attended school in both the US and UK, and was a Senior Fellow and graduated with a BA in Religion from Dartmouth College. She subsequently studied Theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ashton (actor)
David Ashton (born David Scott on 10 November 1941, in Greenock, Scotland) is a Scottish actor and writer. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, 1964–67, he has acted in a wide variety of film, television, theatre and radio roles. He has also developed a parallel career as a writer of fiction, film and television screenplays and plays for theatre and radio. His radio play ''The Old Ladies at the Zoo'', which starred Peggy Mount and Liz Smith, won the Radio Times Drama Award in 1985. Acting Theatre Ashton started his professional career at Worcester Repertory theatre, playing roles such as Marco in ''A View from the Bridge'', Jerry in ''Two for the Seesaw'', Harold Gorringe in ''Black Comedy'', and Charlie in '' Staircase''. At Ipswich Rep, he played Bluntschli in ''Arms and the Man'' and Seamas Shields in ''The Shadow of a Gunman''. Other roles included Grigory Smirnov in Chekhov’s '' The Bear'' at the Orange Tree Theatre, London; The Tramp in Synge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Lee Hentz
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her defenses of slavery and opposition to the abolitionist movement. Her widely read ''The Planter's Northern Bride'' (1854) was one of the genre known as anti-Tom novels, by which writers responded to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling anti-slavery novel, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852). Early life Caroline Hentz was born June 1, 1800, as Caroline Lee Whiting, to Colonel John and Orpah Whiting in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The youngest of eight children, Caroline was raised in a patriotic family. Her father served as a Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War and three of her brothers fought in the War of 1812. As a child, Whiting attended a private school run by Jared Sparks. By the time she was twelve, she had already composed a fantasy about the Far East, as well as a play. At seventeen she was teaching at a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Williams (activist)
Mary Luana Williams (born October 13, 1967) is an American social activist and author who wrote ''The Lost Daughter: A Memoir'' about her life. The memoir details being adopted by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden in her adolescence, as well as growing up as a daughter of Black Panthers before Fonda adopted her. She works with Sudanese refugees through the organization she founded, the Lost Boys Foundation. Early life Mary Luana "Lulu" Williams was born on October 13, 1967, the fifth daughter to Randy and Mary Williams. Both of her parents were members of the Black Panther Party, an organization dedicated to stopping police brutality toward African-Americans, and helping African Americans who lacked employment, education, and healthcare. The family lived at the heart of the movement in East Oakland, California, during the height of the Vietnam War, Race riots and Civil Rights Movement, in an era Williams would later describe as "violent and frenzied".''The Lost Daughter: A Memoir''; Pengui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Daughter (film)
''The Lost Daughter'' is a 2021 psychological drama film adapted for the screen and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal (in her feature directorial debut) based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante. The film stars Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jack Farthing, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ed Harris. Colman also serves as an executive producer. ''The Lost Daughter'' had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021, where Gyllenhaal won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 17, 2021, prior to streaming on December 31, 2021, by Netflix. The film was acclaimed by critics, and at the 94th Academy Awards received three nominations: Best Actress (Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Buckley), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Plot While on holiday in Greece, middle-aged university professor and noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante () is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of ''Neapolitan Novels'' are her most widely known works. ''Time'' magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016. Writing Elena Ferrante is the name used by the author of many novels, including the four-volume work titled the ''Neapolitan Novels''. The ''Neapolitan Novels'' tell the life story of two perceptive and intelligent girls, Lila and Lenu, born in Naples in 1944, who try to create lives for themselves within a violent and stultifying culture. The series consists of ''My Brilliant Friend'' (2012), ''The Story of a New Name'' (2013), ''Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay'' (2014), and ''The Story of the Lost Child'' (2015), which was nominated for the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award. Ferrante holds that "books, once they are written, have no need of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cardinal (director)
Roger Cardinal (1940 - 2017) was a Canadian film director from Quebec. He was most noted for the 1988 film ''Malarek'', for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989. His other credits included the films ''The Storm'', ''Sex in the Snow (Après-ski)'', ''L'Apparition'',Charles-Henri Ramond"Apparition, L’ – Film de Roger Cardinal" ''Films du Québec'', January 2, 1989. ''Captive'', ''Dead Silent'', ''Risque'' and '' Brilliant'', and episodes of the television series ''Urban Angel'', ''Au nom du père et du fils'' and ''René Lévesque René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Québécois politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to attempt ...''. References External links * 1940 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Canadian screenwriters 20th-century Canadian male writers Film directors f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarm Für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei
''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ("Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police") is a long-running, popular German television series about a two-man team of highway police (Autobahnpolizei), originally set in Berlin and since 1999 in the area of Cologne. The series has been broadcast in 120 countries worldwide. The last regular episode "Das Team" aired on 12 August 2021. In an interview, main star Erdoğan Atalay blamed the stoppage on COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the series will return in the form of 90-minute TV movies. Plot The tasks of the Cobra 11 team consist primarily in solving crimes and catching the perpetrators. Typical elements of the action genre are mixed, so that there are regular car crashes, shootouts, explosions and fistfights. These action scenes are elaborately produced in most cases, and appropriately presented in a spectacular way. The high number of unrealistic scenes is a common criticism of the series; for example, large explosions often hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
