Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ˈsɛərz/ ; 13 Juni 1893 – 17 Desember 1957) adalah seorang penulis kejahatan, penyair, pengarang drama, esayis, penerjemah dan Humanis Kristen asal Inggris. Ia juga merupakan murid bahasa klasik dan modern. Dia belajar di Somerville College, Oxford lulus pada tahun 1915. Sayers memperoleh gelar sastra pada abad pertengahan di Universitas Oxford. Dia merupakan perempuan pertama yang lulus dari Universitas Oxford.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Lahir	(1893-06-13)13 Juni 1893 Oxford, Inggris
Meninggal	17 Desember 1957(1957-12-17) (umur 64) Witham, Essex, Inggris
Pekerjaan	Novelist, pengarang drama, esayis, penerjemah, penulis salinan, penyair
Bahasa	Inggris
Kebangsaan	Inggris
Almamater	Somerville College, Oxford
Genre	Fiksi kejahatan
Aliran sastra	Zaman Keemasan Fiksi Detektif
Pasangan	Mac Fleming (m. 1926–50, kematiannya)
Anak	John Anthony Fleming (1924–1984)

Ia dikenal atas karya-karya misterinya, serangkaian novel dan cerpen yang berlatar belakang Perang Dunia Pertama dan Kedua yang menampilkan aristokrat dan pemeriksa amatir Lord Peter Wimsey yang ditulisnya di novel Whose Body yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1923 dan masih populer pada masa sekarang. Namun, Sayers sendiri menganggap terjemahannya dari Divine Comedy karya Dante merupakan karya terbaiknya. Ia juga dikenal atas drama-drama, kritikan sastra dan esai-esai buatannya.

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Referensi

• Op. I by Dorothy Sayers (poetry): digital.library.upenn.edu
• The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers: Audio of this Essay ISBN 978-1-60051-025-0
• Brabazon, James, Dorothy L. Sayers: a Biography (1980; New York: Avon, 1982) ISBN 978-0-380-58990-6
• Dale, Alzina Stone, Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (1993; backinprint.com, 2003) ISBN 978-0-595-26603-6
• Leavis, Q.D. (1937). "The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers". Scrutiny. VI. 
• McGregor, Robert Kuhn & Lewis, Ethan Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-87338-665-5
• Prescott, Barbara, "Dorothy L. Sayers & the Mutual Admiration Society: Friendship and Creative Writing in an Oxford Women's Literary Group." INKLINGS FOREVER, Vol. 10. Proceedings of the 2016 Frances W. Eubank Colloquium on Lewis & Friends. (Taylor University, 2017)
• Reynolds, Barbara, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; rev. eds 1998, 2002) ISBN 0-340-72845-0
• Sørsdal, Randi, From Mystery to Manners: A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, Masters thesis, University of Bergen, bora.uib.no

Bacaan tambahan dan karya terpelajar

• Brown, Janice, The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-87338-605-1
• Connelly, Kelly C. "From Detective Fiction to Detective Literature: Psychology in the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margaret Millar." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.3 (Spring 2007): 35–47
• Coomes, David, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life (1992; London: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-7459-2241-6
• Dean, Christopher, ed., Encounters with Lord Peter (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) ISBN 0-9518000-0-0
• —, Studies in Sayers: Essays presented to Dr Barbara Reynolds on her 80th Birthday (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) ISBN 0-9518000-1-9
• Downing, Crystal, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy Sayers (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) ISBN 1-4039-6452-1
• Gorman, Anita G., and Leslie R. Mateer. "The Medium Is the Message: Busman's Honeymoon as Play, Novel, and Film." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 54–62
• Kenney, Catherine, The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (1990; Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1992) ISBN 0-87338-458-X
• Lennard, John, 'Of Purgatory and Yorkshire: Dorothy L. Sayers and Reginald Hill's Divine Comedy', in Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007), pp. 33–55. ISBN 978-1-84760-038-7
• Loades, Ann. "Dorothy L. Sayers: War and Redemption." In Hein, David, and Edward Henderson, eds. C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination, pp. 53–70. London: SPCK, 2011.
• Nelson, Victoria, L. is for Sayers: A Play in Five Acts (Dreaming Spires Publications, 2012) ISBN 0-615-53872-X
• Prescott, Barbara, Lyric Muse: The Oxford Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers. (©2017, Prepublication Ms.)
• Webster, Peter, 'Archbishop Temple's offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L. Sayers'. In: From the Reformation to the Permissive Society. Church of England Record Society (18). Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2010, pp. 565–582. ISBN 978-1-84383-558-5. Full text in SAS-Space
• Young, Laurel. "Dorothy L. Sayers and the New Woman Detective Novel."CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 39–53

Pranala luar

Umum

• The Dorothy L. Sayers Society
• Dorothy L. Sayers di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)

Arsip

• Dorothy Sayers archives at the Marion E. Wade Center Diarsipkan 2017-07-02 di Wayback Machine. at Wheaton College
• "Materi arsip tentang Dorothy L. Sayers". UK National Archives. 
• Karya oleh/tentang Dorothy L. Sayers di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Karya Dorothy L. Sayers di Faded Page (Canada)
• Karya Dorothy L. Sayers di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Karya oleh Dorothy L. Sayers di Open Library

Artikel

• Dorothy L Sayers in Galloway—the scene of her novel Five Red Herrings (1931)
• "Dorothy L. Sayers: A Christian Humanist for Today" by Mary Brian Durkin
• "Second Glance: Dorothy Sayers and the Last Golden Age" by Joanna Scutts Diarsipkan 2018-10-05 di Wayback Machine.