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Kate Atkinson 8Award-Winning Authors BOOKWORLD CONTENTS Award-winning authors Three successful authors in the spotlight as compiled by Grizéll Azar-Luxton 16 Award-winning authors Donkerbosverdwaal: belydenis van ’n depressielyer ’n Insiggewende bespreking van hierdie pryswenner deur Ronél Kritzinger 18 Compiled by Gory stories: Some books about forensics, medicine and crime GRIZÉLL AZAR-LUXTON in 1988 and in 2000. She reviews and broadcasts Book Selector Margaret Iskandar’s delight- ful discussion on matters forensic 18 regularly for press and radio, and lives in Norfolk Booklist: Gory stories Rose Tremain and London. Her novel, An extensive booklist on the topic by The colour (2003), set in Margaret Iskandar 21 ovelist Rose Tremain was born New Zealand at the time in 1943 in London. She was of the West Coast Gold Neducated at the Sorbonne and Rush in the 1860s, was is a graduate of the University of East shortlisted for the 2004 Anglia, where she taught creative writing Photo: John Rawson Orange Prize for Fiction. from 1988-95. Her publications include Her latest book is a collection novels and short story collections, and she of short stories: The darkness of Wallis The way I found her.- Sinclair-Stevenson, is also the author of a number of radio Simpson (2005). 1997. and television plays, including Temporary Rose Tremain is an outstanding example shelter, (which won a Giles Cooper Award), of the way in which a fine ‘literary’ writer Prizes and awards and One night in winter, first broadcast by can sometimes develop into a popular BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. She was 1984 Dylan Thomas Award (for four short one. Her novels are both sophisticated and stories, three from The colonel’s daughter). awarded an honorary Litt.D by the Univer- entertaining: they can captivate readers with sity of East Anglia in 2000. 1984 Giles Cooper Award (radio play) sensuous - and at times sensual - pleasures Temporary shelter. Her first novel, Sadler’s birthday, was in return for the demands she makes. Her published in 1976. This was followed by 1985 Angel Literary Award The swimming body of work is diverse: eight novels to date, pool season. Letterlo sister Benedicta (1978), The several volumes of short stories, a children’s 1989 Angel Literary Award Restoration. cupboard (1981) and The swimming pool book, as well as award-winning radio and 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year season (1985), which won the Angel Literary television plays. Award. Restoration (1989) won the Angel Restoration. Literary Award, the Sunday Express Book of Bibliography 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Restoration. *Collected short stories.- Sinclair- 1992 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for Booker Prize for Fiction. It was made into a Stevenson, 1996. film in 1996. fiction) Sacred country. The colonel’s daughter and other stories.- 1993 Prix Femina Etranger (France) Sacred Her other novels include Sacred H. Hamilton, 1984. country (1992), winner of the James Tait country. The colour.- Chatto, 2003. Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 1999 Whitbread Novel Award Music and The cupboard.- Macdonald, 1981. prestigious Prix Femina Etranger (France), silence. The way I found her (1997), and Music and *The darkness of Wallis Simpson.- 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) The silence (1999), winner of the Whitbread Bloomsbury, 2005. colour. Novel Award, a historical novel set in the Evangelista’s fan and other stories.- Sinclair- With acknowldgement to Dr Jules Smith. early seventeenth century. Stevenson, 1994. She has published several collections The garden of the Villa Mollini and of short stories, including The colonel’s other stories.- H. Hamilton, 1987. daughter and other stories (1984), The Journey to the volcano.- Piper Bks., 1988. garden of the Villa Mollini and other stories Letter to Sister Benedicta.- Macdonald & Kate Atkinson (1987) and Evangelista’s fan and other Jane’s, 1978. ate Atkinson was born in York in stories (1994). Music and silence.- Chatto, 1999. 1951 and studied English Literature She was chosen as one of the 20 Best of Restoration.- H. Hamilton, 1989. K at Dundee University. After graduat- Young British Novelists in a promotion by Sacred country.- Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. ing in 1974, she researched a postgraduate the literary magazine Granta in 1983, and Sadler’s birthday.- Macdonald & Jane’s, 1976. doctorate on American Literature. She later was a judge for the Booker Prize for Fiction The swimming pool season.- H. Hamilton, taught at Dundee and began writing short 1985. Cape Libr., Sept/Oct 2005 16 BOEKWÊRELD stories in 1981. She began 1993 Ian St James Award This is a novelist as much at home writing for women’s magazines (short story competition) fictionalising the ‘internal’ histories of Black after winning the 1986 Wom- Karmic mothers. Britons as she is telling the transatlantic an’s Own Short Story Competi- 1995 Whitbread Book of tale of the Caribbean Diaspora. Levy is tion. She was runner-up for the the Year Behind the scenes an English novelist who remains defiantly Bridport Short Story Prize in at the museum. outside the limits of Englishness. ‘Saying that 1990 and won an Ian St James 1996 Lire Book of the I am English does not mean I want to be Award in 1993 for her short Year (France) Behind the assimilated; to take on the white culture to story Karmic mothers, which she scenes at the museum. the exclusion of all others... I cannot live later adapted for BBC2 television 1996 Yorkshire Post Book without rice and peas. I now dance when as part of its Tartan Shorts series. Award (Best First Work) Jamaica wins anything...’ Her first novel, Behind the Behind the scenes at the Andrea Levy has been a judge for the museum. scenes at the museum (1995), Saga Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. won the 1995 Whitbread Book 1997 EM Forster Award She lives with her partner, a graphic designer, (American Academy of of the Year award, beating Salman in north London. Arts and Letters). Rushdie’s The Moor’s last sigh and Photograph: Peter Ross 2004 Whitbread Novel Award Roy Jenkins’ biography Gladstone. (shortlist) Case histories. The book has been adapted for radio and Bibliography With acknowledgement to Dr Jules Smith. theatre and has been adapted for television *Every light in the house burnin’.- Headline, by the author. Her second novel, Human 1994. croquet, was published in 1997 and relates Fruit of the lemon.- Review, 1999. the story of another family, the Fairfaxes, Never far from nowhere.- Headline, 1996. through flashback and historical narrative. Andrea Levy Small island.- Review, 2004. Kate Atkinson made a spectacular debut with Behind the scenes at the museum ndrea Levy has achieved literary (1995), winning the prestigious Whitbread success in a relatively short space Prizes and awards Prize as overall Book of the Year, and her of time with her first three novels A 1998 Arts Council Writers’ Award Fruit of two subsequent novels have also been Every light in the house burnin’ (1994), the lemon. enthusiastically reviewed. Her books are Never far from nowhere (1996) 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction Small exotic and highly entertaining hybrids, for and Fruit of the lemon (1999). island. which the term ‘tragic comedy’ seems However, an understanding of 2004 Whitbread Novel insufficient. her work cannot simply be Award Small island. She has written two plays for the Traverse reduced to the 1990s. Born in 2004 Whitbread Book of Theatre in Edinburgh: a short play, Nice London to Jamaican parents in the Year Small island. (1996), and Abandonment, which premiered 1956, Levy draws on a wealth 2005 British Book Awards as part of the Edinburgh Festival in August of experience to create her 2000. She currently lives in Edinburgh and Decibel Writer of the Year critically-acclaimed fictions. (shortlist). is an occasional contributor to newspapers She is the author of 2005 British Book Awards and magazines. Her third novel, Emotionally four novels, each of which Photo: The Bookseller Literary Fiction Award weird, was published in 2000. In 2002 her explore - from different (shortlist) Small island. collection of short stories, Not the end of perspectives - the problems faced 2005 Commonwealth the world (2002), was published, and her by black British-born children of Jamaican Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) latest book is Case histories (2004). emigrants. Small island. Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Bibliography 2005 Romantic Novelists’ Association Award Every light in the house burnin’ (1994), (shortlist) Small island. *Abandonment.- Nick Hern Books, 2000. is the story of a Jamaican family living in With acknowledgements to Dr James Procter. Behind the scenes at the museum.- London in the 1960s. Her second, Never Doubleday, 1995. far from nowhere (1996), is set during Source the 1970s and tells the story of two very Case histories.- Doubleday, 2004. www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/ different sisters living on a London council Emotionally weird.- Doubleday, 2000. ?p=auth97 estate. In Fruit of the lemon (1999), Faith Human croquet.- Doubleday, 1997. www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/ Jackson, a young black Londoner, visits *Not the end of the world.- Black Swan, ?p=auth4 Jamaica after suffering a nervous breakdown 2003. www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/ and discovers a previously unknown ?p=auth149 personal history. Levy’s most recent novel, Prizes and awards Note: *Titles not in Library Service stock. Small island (2004), won the 2004 Orange 1986 Woman’s Own Short Story Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Whitbread Book Competition. of the Year, and the 2005 Commonwealth 1990 Bridport Short Story Prize (runner-up). Writers’ Prize. Kaapse Bibl., Sept/Okt 2005 17.
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