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Jane Gardam

Jane Gardam (born 11 July 1928, Coatham, North Yorkshire) is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is 6 programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards including the Whitbread Award, twice. She is mother of Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Novels

*A Few Fair Days (1971)
*A Long Way from Verona (1971)
*The Summer After the Funeral (1973)
*Black Faces, White Faces (1975)
*Bilgewater (1976)
*God on the Rocks (1978)
*The Sidmouth Letters (1980)
*Bridget and William (1981)
*The Hollow Land (1981)
*Horse (1982)
*Kit (1983)
*Crusoe's Daughter (1985)
*Kit in Boots (1986)
*Swan (1987)
*Through the Doll's House Door (1987)
*The Queen of the Tambourine (1991)
*Black Woolly Pony (1993)
*Faith Fox (1996)
*Tufty Bear (1996)
*Missing the Midnight (1997)
*The Green Man (1998)
*The Flight of the Maidens (2000)
*Old Filth (2004)

Omnibus

*Bridget and William / Horse (1987)

Collections

*The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983)
*Kit / Kit in Boots (1988)
*Showing the Flag and Other Stories (1989)
*Trio: Three Stories from Cheltenham (1993)
*Going into a Dark House (1994)
*Animal Stories (1995)
*Magical Stories (1995)
*Stories for Five-Year-Olds (1995)
*Stories for Six-Year-Olds (1995)
*The Kit Stories (1998)
*The People on Privilege Hill (2007)

Non fiction

The Iron Coast (1994) [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/jane-gardam/]

Awards and nominations

*David Higham Prize for Fiction (1975): "Black Faces, White Faces"
*Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1975): "Black Faces, White Faces"
*The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978): "God on the Rocks"
*Whitbread Children's Book Award (1983): "The Hollow Land"
*Katherine Mansfield Award (1984): "The Pangs of Love"
*Prix Baudelaire (France) (1989): "God on the Rocks"
*Whitbread Novel Award (1991: "The Queen of the Tambourine"
*PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1995): Going Into A Dark House
*Heywood Hill Literary Prize (1999): for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature
*Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005): "Old Filth"
*National Short Story Prize nominee: "The People on Privilege Hill" [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth40]

References

External links

*Page at [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth40 ContemporaryWriters.com] .
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Источник: Jane Gardam