EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT
May 2015 ENGLISH READING CLUB ENJOY READING!
HELEN FIELDING Bridget Jones’s diary
Helen Fielding (19 February 1958, West Yorkshire, England))
With the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding created not only one of the bestselling books of the 1990’s, she also created a new genre of “chick lit”. She began her career as a journalist at the BBC in 1979, on a news magazine.
Her
experiences
in
a
refugee camp in Sudan in 1989 made the foundation of her first novel
Cause
Celeb,
whose
title
derives from the expression cause célèbre (famous legal cases). In the 1990’s Helen Fielding worked as a journalist and columnist for different newspapers including “Sunday times”, “Independent2 and “The telegraph”. Bridget Jones’s Diary began as a column she wrote anonymous for “The Independent” in 1995. Helen Fielding has two children with “The Simpsons” writer/executive producer Kevin Curran. However they split up in 2009.
SELECTED WORKS 2013 Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy 2004 Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination 2001 Bridget Jones's Guide to Life 1999 Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason 1996 Bridget Jones's Diary 1994 Cause Celeb Short stories 2009 Ox-tales, a collection of short stories in aid of Oxfam
Bridget Jones’s diary (1996) The book is the chronicle of a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week,, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following:
misogynists,
megalomaniacs,
adulterers,
workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001. The film stars Renée Zellweger as the heroine, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.
Biblioteca Antonio Martín Plaça Catalunya, 39-41 08820 El Prat de Llobregat Telèfon: 93.370.51.52 b.prat.am@diba.cat www.biblioteca.elprat.cat
Horaris Hivern Dilluns de 15.30 a 21h De dimarts a divendres de 10 a 21h Dissabte de 10 a 19h Estiu
Juliol:
Dilluns de 15.30 a 21 hores. De dimarts a divendres de 10 a 21 hores Dissabtes de 10 a 14 hores
Agost:
Dilluns a divendres de 15.30 a 21 hores. Dissabtes de 10 a 14 hores