Lasdun

British  

/ ˈlæzdən /

noun

1. Sir Denys. 1914–2001, British architect. He is best known for the University of East Anglia (1968) and the National Theatre in London (1976)

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Example Sentences

“It’s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author’s reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you,” James Lasdun writes in his review.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

The narrator, like Lasdun, is a writer and professor from a bourgeois-bohemian English family who is now living in upstate New York.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

Biographical echoes invite us to read the narrator—and, to a lesser extent, his foil, Marco—as alternative-reality versions of Lasdun.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

Lasdun presents this as a kind of cultural atavism, a return to a pre-modern situation where social arrangements were dependent upon trust and hearsay, and where a stain on one's honour could be catastrophic.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

An epistolary relationship gradually emerged in which the then fortysomething Lasdun played a kind of mentor role.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013