Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett en 1973.
Nombre	Alan Bennett
Nacimiento	9 de mayo de 1934 (77 años)  Inglaterra, Leeds
Nacionalidad	británico
Ocupación	dramaturgo, actor, escritor, guionista

Alan Bennett (Leeds, 1934) es un dramaturgo, actor, novelista y guionista británico, ganador un Premio Tony por su obra The History Boys.

Es autor de muchas y celebradas obras teatrales como Habeas Corpus, Forty One Years On, Kafka's Dick o The Madness of George III (adaptada después al cine). También es apreciado su trabajo en la televisión y en el cine. Aun con una dilatada literaria a sus espaldas, sólo comenzó a escribir prosa en la última década.

Bibliografía y filmografía

Trabajos para televisión

• My Father Knew Lloyd George (also writer), 1965
• Famous Gossips, 1965
• Plato—The Drinking Party, 1965
• Alice in Wonderland, 1966
• On the Margin series (actor & writer), 1966-67
• A Day Out (also writer), 1972
• Sunset Across the Bay (also writer), 1975
• A Little Outing (also writer), 1975
• A Visit from Miss Prothero (writer), 1978
• Me—I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (writer), 1978
• Doris and Doreen (Green Forms) (writer), 1978
• The Old Crowd (writer) with Lindsay Anderson (director), LWT 1979
• Afternoon Off (actor & writer), 1979
• One Fine Day (writer), 1979
• All Day On the Sands (writer), 1979
• Objects of Affection (Our Winnie, A Woman of No Importance, Rolling Home, Marks, Say Something Happened, Intensive Care) (also writer), 1982
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (actor), 1982
• An Englishman Abroad (writer), 1983
• The Insurance Man (writer), 1986
• Breaking Up, 1986
• Man and Music (narrator), 1986
• Talking Heads (A Chip in the Sugar, Bed Among the Lentils, A Lady of Letters, Her Big Chance, Soldiering On, A Cream Cracker Under the Settee) (also writer), 1987
• Down Cemetery Road: The Landscape of Philip Larkin (presenter), 1987
• Fortunes of War series (actor), 1987
• Dinner at Noon (narrator), 1988
• Poetry in Motion (presenter), 1990
• 102 Boulevard Haussmann (writer), 1990
• A Question of Attribution (writer), 1991
• Selling Hitler, 1991
• Poetry in Motion 2 (presenter), 1992
• Portrait or Bust (presenter), 1994
• The Abbey (presenter), 1995
• A Dance to the Music of Time (actor), 1997
• Talking Heads 2, 1998
• Telling Tales (writer, as himself), 2000

Películas

• Long Shot, 1980
• Dreamchild (voice only), 1985
• The Secret Policeman's Ball, 1986
• The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, 1982
• A Private Function (screenplay), 1986
• Pleasure At Her Majesty's, 1987
• Prick Up Your Ears (screenplay), 1987
• Little Dorrit, 1987
• Wind in the Willows animated adaptation, 1994
• Parson's Pleasure (writer), 1995
• The Madness of King George (screenplay from his play "The Madness of George III"), 1995
• The History Boys (screenplay, from his play of the same name), 2006

Radio

• The Great Jowett, 1980
• Dragon, 1982
• Uncle Clarence (writer, narrator), 1985
• Better Halves (narrator), 1988
• The Lady in the Van (writer, narrator), 1990
• Winnie-the-Pooh (narrator), 1990

Teatro

• Better Late, 1959
• Beyond the Fringe (also co-writer), 1960
• The Blood of the Bambergs, 1962
• A Cuckoo in the Nest, 1964
• Forty Years On (also writer), 1968
• Sing a Rude Song (co-writer), 1969
• Getting On (writer), 1971
• Habeas Corpus (also writer), 1973
• The Old Country (writer), 1977
• Enjoy (writer), 1980
• Kafka's Dick (writer), 1986
• A Visit from Miss Prothero (writer), 1987
• Single Spies (An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution) (also writer and director), 1988
• The Wind in the Willows (adaptation), 1990
• The Madness of George III (writer), 1991
• Talking Heads (Waiting for the telegram, A Chip in the Sugar, Bed Among the Lentils, A Lady of Letters, Her Big Chance, Soldiering On, A Cream Cracker Under the Settee) (also writer), 1992
• The History Boys (escritor), 2004; Ganador del Tony Award for Best Play, 2006.

Libros

• Beyond the Fringe (with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore). London: Souvenir Press, 1962, and New York: Random House, 1963
• Forty Years On. London: Faber, 1969
• Getting On. London: Faber, 1972
• Habeas Corpus. London: Faber, 1973
• The Old Country. London: Faber, 1978
• Enjoy. London: Faber, 1980
• Office Suite. London: Faber, 1981
• Objects of Affection. London: BBC Publications, 1982
• A Private Function. London: Faber, 1984
• Forty Years On; Getting On; Habeas Corpus. London: Faber, 1985
• The Writer in Disguise. London: Faber, 1985
• Prick Up Your Ears: The Film Screenplay. London: Faber, 1987
• Two Kafka Plays. London: Faber, 1987
• Talking Heads. London: BBC Publications, 1988; New York: Summit, 1990
• Single Spies. London: Faber, 1989
  • Winner of Olivier Award: England's best comedy for 1989
• Single Spies and Talking Heads. New York: Summit, 1990
• The Lady in the Van, 1989
• Poetry in Motion (with others). 1990
• The Wind in the Willows. London: Faber, 1991
• Forty Years On and Other Plays. London: Faber, 1991
• The Madness of George III. London: Faber, 1992
• Poetry in Motion 2 (with others). 1992
• Writing Home (memoir & essays). London: Faber, 1994 (winner of the 1995 British Book of the Year award).
• The Madness of King George (screenplay), 1995
• Father ! Father ! Burning Bright (prose version of 1982 TV script, Intensive Care), 1999
• The Laying on of Hands (novella), 2000
• The Clothes They Stood Up In (novella), 2001
• Untold Stories (autobiographical and essays), London, Faber/Profile Books, 2005, ISBN 0-571-22830-5
• The Uncommon Reader (novella), 2007

Traducciones de su obra

Francés

• Soins intensifs, 2006

Alemán

• Der Rote Baron, Sein letzter Flug, 2001
• Vater, Vater, lichterloh, 2002
• Così fan tutte, (previously published as Alle Jahre wieder) 2003
• Die Lady im Lieferwagen, 2004
• Handauflegen, 2005

Español

• Una Patata Frita en el Azúcar, 2003
• Una Cama Entre Lentejas, 2003
• Una Señora de Letras, 2003
• Su Gran Oportunidad, 2003
• Ir Tirando, 2003
• Una Galleta Crácker Bajo el Sofá, 2003
• Una Mujer Sin Importancia, 2003
• La Señora del Furgón, 2004
• La Mano de Dios, 2004
• La Señorita Fozzard Hace Pie, 2004
• Jugando a los Bocadillos, 2004
• El Perro en el Patio, 2004
• Noches en los Jardines de España, 2004
• Esperando el Telegrama, 2004
• Una lectora nada común. Editorial Anagrama. 2008. ISBN 978-84-339-7475-4. 
• La dama de la furgoneta. Editorial Anagrama. 2009. ISBN 978-84-339-7493-8. 

Italiano

• La pazzia di re Giorgio, 1996
• Nudi e crudi, 2001
• La cerimonia del massaggio, 2002
• La signora nel furgone, 2003
• Signore e signori, 2004
• Scritto sul corpo, 2006
• La sovrana lettrice, 2007
• Il letto di lenticchie, ????