Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10. decembar 1907 – . novembar 1998) bila je engleska spisateljica, poznata po svom umjetničkom pseudonimu Rumer Godden. Odrasla je i veliki dio života provela u Britanskoj Indiji, te su joj se djela često bavila odnosom zapadne i orijentalne kulture. Njena sestra Jon Godden se također bavila pisanjem.

Djela

Knjige za odrasle

Beletristika

• 1936 Chinese Puzzle
• 1937 The Lady and the Unicorn
• 1939 Black Narcissus, roman o evropskim redovnicama u Indiji; poznat kao predložak za znameniti istoimeni film iz 1947. godine
• 1940 Gypsy, Gypsy
• 1942 Breakfast with the Nikolides
• 1945 Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time, adaptiran u film Enchantment 1948. godine, ul. David Niven i Teresa Wright
• 1946 The River, adaptiran u istoimeni film 1951. godine u režiji Jeana Renoira, također surađivala na scenariju
• 1947 A Candle for St. Jude
• 1950 A Breath of Air
• 1953 Kingfishers Catch Fire
• 1956 An Episode of Sparrows, ekraniziran kao film Innocent Sinners 1958.
• 1957 Mooltiki, and other stories and poems of India
• 1958 The Greengage Summer, ekraniziran kao istoimeni film 1961.
• 1961 China Court: The Hours of a Country House
• 1963 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita ekraniziran kao istoimeni film 1965. godine
• 1968 Gone: A Thread of Stories (ko-autor: Jon Godden)
• 1968 Swans and Turtles (zbirka novela)
• 1969 In This House of Brede, knjiga o životu benediktinskih redovnica, adaptiran u TV-film sa Dianom Rigg u glavnoj ulozi
• 1975 The Peacock Spring, adaptiran u TV-film 1995.
• 1979 Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy
• 1981 The Dark Horse
• 1984 Thursday's Children
• 1989 Indian Dust (ko-autor: Jon Godden)
• 1990 Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love: Stories (ko-autor: Jon Godden)
• 1991 Coromandel Sea Change
• 1994 Pippa Passes
• 1997 Cromartie vs. the God Shiva

publicistika

• 1943 Rungli-Rungliot – ponovno objavljena 1961. pod naslovom Thus Far and No Further
• 1945 Bengal Journey: A story of the part played by women in the province, 1939-1945
• 1955 Hans Christian Andersen (biografija)
• 1966 Two Under the Indian Sun (memoari iz djetinjstva; ko-autor: Jon Godden)
• 1968 Mrs. Manders' Cook Book
• 1971 The Tale of the Tales: Beatrix Potter Ballet
• 1972 Shiva's Pigeons (ko-autor: Jon Godden)
• 1977 The Butterfly Lions
• 1980 Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess At the Mughal Court
• 1987 A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, autobiografija
• 1989 A House with Four Rooms, autobiografija

knjige za djecu

• 1947 The Doll's House, adaptirana u animiranu TV-seriju Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
• 1951 The Mousewife
• 1952 Mouse House
• 1954 Impunity Jane: The Story of a Pocket Doll
• 1956 The Fairy Doll
• 1958 The Story of Holly and Ivy
• 1960 Candy Floss
• 1961 Saint Jerome and the Lion (legenda u stihovima)
• 1961 Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, dječja knjiga o japanskim lutkama.
• 1963 Little Plum, nastavak Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
• 1964 Home is the Sailor
• 1967 The Kitchen Madonna, knjiga o dvoje djece koje izrađuju ikonu za ukrajinskog kućepazitelja, ratnog izbjeglicu
• 1969 Operation Sippacik
• 1972 The Diddakoi (također objavljena kao Gypsy Girl), dobitnik Whitbreadove nagrade, adaptirana za televiziju pod naslovom Kizzy.
• 1972 The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
• 1975 Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en
• 1977 The Rocking Horse Secret
• 1978 A Kindle of Kittens
• 1981 The Dragon of Og
• 1983 Four Dolls
• 1983 The Valiant Chatti-Maker
• 1984 Mouse Time: Two Stories
• 1990 Fu-Dog
• 1992 Great Grandfather's House
• 1992 Listen to the Nightingale
• 1996 The Little Chair
• 1996 Premlata and the Festival of Lights
• 1984 Thursdays Children

Poezija

• 1949 In Noah's Ark
• 1968 A Letter to the World (ko-autor: Emily Dickinson)
• 1996 Cockcrow to Starlight: A Day Full of Poetry (antologija za djecu)
• 1996 A Pocket Book of Spiritual Poems

Vanjske veze

• The Rumer Godden Literary Trust
• Rumer Godden: A House with 4 Rooms Arhivirano 2013-06-15 na Wayback Machine-u
• Rumer Godden na sajtu IMDb