Lesley Glaister

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Lesley Glaister

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Born (1956-10-04) 4 October 1956 (age 68)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • playwright
NationalityBritish
Notable awards Somerset Maugham Award (1991)
Betty Trask Award (1991)
Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (2014)
Spouse Andrew Greig
Website
lesleyglaister.co.uk

Lesley Glaister (born 4 October 1956) [1] is a British novelist, poet and playwright. She has written 16 novels, A Particular Man (2024) being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, [2] and is a regular contributor of book reviews to The Spectator and The Times . [2] She is married to poet Andrew Greig. [3]

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Her subject matter is often serious (murder, madness and obsession crop up regularly in her books) but with a thread of dark humour running through it. Her first novel Honour Thy Father (1990) won the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award, Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction in 2002, and Easy Peasy was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998. [2] [4] Little Egypt, published in 2014, won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her first play, Bird Calls, was performed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2003.

Glaister is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [5] She is currently writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh.

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References

  1. ↑ "Birthdays". The Guardian . Guardian News & Media. 3 October 2014. p. 56.
  2. 1 2 3 Glaister, Lesley (1997) Easy Peasy, Publisher's Biographical note, Bloomsbury, ISBN   0-7475-3509-4
  3. ↑ "LESLEY GLAISTER". Tindal Street Press. Archived from the original on 6 August 2010.
  4. ↑ "Bloomsbury Publishing". Archived from the original on 19 April 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
  5. ↑ "Grammar, Style, and Usage". Writing Explained. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
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