Source: Eboracvm: Carved in Stone by Graham Clews. Trafford Publishing .
Author: Anthony Lawton
Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of eminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK. Sometimes a consultant.
Rosemary Sutcliff film The Eagle in France | L’Aigle de la Neuvième Légion | Stars Tahar Rahim
In France the film based upon Rosemary Sutcliff‘s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth is (happily) entitled still L’Aigle de la Neuvième Légion. French emerging film star Tahar Rahim is the prince of the Seal People. It is released on 20th April according to Cinema-France (here). The French synopsis of the film is:
L’adaptation d’un roman épique anglo-saxon de Rosemary Sutcliff. L’histoire se déroule au crépuscule de l’Empire Romain. Un officier est envoyé en Grande-Bretagne pour y enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de la Neuvième Légion, la plus célèbre de l’Empire, qui stationnait à la frontière avec l’Ecosse. Quatre mille soldats ont mystérieusement disparu, avec parmi eux le père de cet officier…
Author Rosemary Sutcliff contributes to Super Bowl XLV !
As I posted a while back, Rosemary Sutcliff – eminent writer of children’s literature and historical fiction – and her novel The Eagle of the Ninth have never until now, to my knowledge, been connected with American Football and the Super Bowl. But at Sunday coming’s Super Bowl XLV – the big American football event of the year – a TV advertisement for The Eagle film (out Feb. 11 in USA, 25th March in UK) will be broadcast. The film is based upon Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth story, indeed in several European countries, but not in the UK sadly, the film entitled The Eagle of the Ninth (in French, German or whatever …)
Some film studios are bypassing the game itself and air advertisements during the festivities before the games, when the cost is lower. This is what Focus Features are doing. Those of you football fans who find your way here can find more about the book, film and author all over this site!
Saturday Morning Radio in New Zealand with Kim Hill and Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi is due to discuss the work of writer Rosemary Sutcliff, best known for her historical novels such as The Eagle of the Ninth series, on Saturday morning at 11.45am NZ Time (10.45pm in UK) radio on 5th February. Wellington (NZ) author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi is the 2011 winner of the New Zealand’s top award for children’s writers and illustrators, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award.
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Quote from Rosemary Sutcliff’s award-winning historical novel The Lantern Bearers
For a moment they stood looking at each other in the firelight, while the old harper still fingered the shining strings and the other man looked on with a gleam of amusement lurking in his watery blue eyes. But Aquila was not looking at him. He was looking only at the dark young man, seeing that he was darker even than he had thought at first, and slightly built in a way that went with the darkness, as though maybe the old blood, the blood of the People of the Hills, ran strong in him. But his eyes, under brows as straight as a raven’s flight-pinions, were not the eyes of the little Dark People, which were black and unstable and full of dreams, but a pale clear grey, lit with gold, that gave the effect of flame behind them.
from The Lantern Bearers, quoted at Goodreads
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 