Adelle Stripe

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Adelle Stripe
Born1976 (age 47–48)
York, North Yorkshire, England
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Greenwich University of Manchester
Website
www.adellestripe.co.uk

Adelle Stripe (born 1976) [1] is an English writer and journalist.

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Work

Stripe's writing is rooted in the non-fiction novel form and explores working-class culture, untold histories of Northern England, popular music, and small-town life.

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, her debut novel, was based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. [2] A stage adaptation by Freedom Studios and screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth toured across Yorkshire in 2019. [3]

Ten Thousand Apologies is her collaborative biography of cult UK band Fat White Family that traces the group's origins from working-class Huddersfield to Algeria, via sectarian Northern Ireland and the squats of south London.

In 2006, alongside Tony O'Neill and Ben Myers she formed possibly the first literary movement spawned via a social networking site, the Brutalists. [4] She published three chapbook collections of poetry with Blackheath Books, including Dark Corners of Land. [5] The Humber Star, her poem based on the experiences of her ancestors in 19th century Hessle Road, was performed at John Grant's North Atlantic Flux, for Hull UK City of Culture 2017. [6]

As a journalist, Stripe has written features on theatre, film, literature and music for The Quietus, Yorkshire Post and New Statesman.

Her spoken word has appeared on recordings by Smagghe & Cross and the Eccentronic Research Council. [7] [8]

Reception

In 2017, writing in The Spectator, Andy Miller noted that Stripe's portrayal of Andrea Dunbar in Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile ‘mixes fiction and biography in a manner that brings to mind the work of the late Gordon Burn. [...] The author's voice and Dunbar's mingle to create not just a portrait of an artist — funny, mischievous, reckless and truthful — but also divisions of class, geography and opportunity which continue to shape this country.’ [9]

Wendy Erskine, who reviewed Ten Thousand Apologies in the Irish Times, commented that Stripe ‘is a master at giving real-life novelistic momentum and shape without anything seeming forced or schematic, and she brings sharp perspicacity to every scene.’ [10] Writing in the Observer, Miranda Sawyer described her account of Fat White Family as a 'bleak, funny and compelling biography.[…] Stripe is known for her imaginative novel/biography of Andrea Dunbar, and this book, too, though it reads pretty close to the truth, emphasises that “fact has been used to create fiction” and that people remember events differently. The difference here is Stripe is writing with, as well as about, her subject.' [11]

Honours

Stripe was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature and the Gordon Burn Prize for her novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile. [12] [13] Ten Thousand Apologies was nominated for the Penderyn Music Book Prize in 2023. [14]

Her PhD thesis on Andrea Dunbar, non-fiction novels and contemporary northern literature was awarded by the University of Huddersfield. [15]

She is an Anthony Burgess Fellow at Manchester University's Centre for New Writing. [16]

Personal life

Stripe grew up in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and attended Tadcaster Grammar School. She lives in Calderdale and is married to the author Ben Myers. [17]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Fiction

Short stories

Drama

Poetry

Essays & Journalism

Edited works, introductions and forewords

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  4. ↑ Masters, Tim (7 October 2010). "Does poetry need a special day?" . Retrieved 6 September 2019.
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