| farah ashraf |
An English novelist and playwright, born on February 9, 1863. He is known for his two novels: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898). The Prisoner of Zenda opened the door to the emergence of a genre known as Ruritanian romance, as Zenda has inspired many novels and films. The idea of writing the plot of it came to Anthony at the end of 1893, when he was walking in London. This novel achieved a resounding success, and its brilliant hero Rudolf Rassendyll became a well-known fictional character, and it was translated into many languages, including Arabic. This success made Anthony leave his future profession as a lawyer to become a full-time writer, but he did not achieve complete artistic success as he achieved. Anthony continued to write many novels, and not only that, but also wrote many plays. In 1900, he was elected president of the Society of Authors, and was awarded the Great Knight Medal in 1918 for his contribution to the government propaganda during World War I, and published a biography of him called (Memories and Notes) in 1927. He died on July 8, 1933, at the age of 70 of throat cancer in his country house in Surrey.
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