Julian Gloag | |
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| Born | 2 July 1930 London, England |
| Died | 12 September 2023 (aged 93) Provins, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1963–1996 |
| Notable works | Our Mother’s House (1963) A Sentence Of Life (1966) Lost and Found (1981) |
Julian Gloag (2 July 1930 – 12 September 2023) was an English novelist. He was the author of eleven novels, the best known of which is his first, Our Mother’s House (1963), which was made into a film of the same name starring Dirk Bogarde.
Gloag was born in London, where he was largely brought up. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then emigrated to the United States before settling in France.[1] Though his literary reputation has declined somewhat in Britain, he remains popular in France, where he lived much of his life, and there most of his work is available in translation from Gallimard.[2][3][4][5] Gloag died in Provins on 12 September 2023, at the age of 93.[6][7]