Patricia Craig (writer)

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Patricia Craig (born 1940s [1] [lower-alpha 1] ) is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim.

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Personal life

She was born in Belfast to Nora (née Brady) and Andy Craig [7] and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls [8] before studying at the Belfast School of Art and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (where she obtained a Diploma in Art & Design, Hons.). She returned to Northern Ireland in 1999. [7] She is married to the Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan. [7]

Career

In the late 1960s, Craig was at Notre Dame Convent School in Battersea, working as an art mistress, but longed to have a literary career. [1] Since then, she has written memoirs, edited several anthologies and written articles for newspapers. [9] In London she began to collaborate with Mary Cadogan, editing several books on children's literature. Their first book, You’re a Brick Angela!, became a classic. [10]

On her return to Northern Ireland she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore which was described by the critic Seamus Deane as 'a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate'. [11] Perhaps her most popular book was the memoir Asking for Trouble (1987) which details her schooldays, culminating in her expulsion from school. [8]

Awards

She was Honorary Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast where she was appointed to the Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. [12] [9]

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Craig stated that she was a 20-something in the late 1960s, which would have meant that she was likely born in the 1940s. [1] There are sources that state that her year of birth is 1952, [2] [3] and in 2015, the Belfast Telegraph stated that she was 63, which would mean she was born about 1952. [4] One source states that she was born on 16 January 1949. [5] The Independent states that she was born after the war and grew up in the 1950s. [6] It is also believed that her year of birth was 1942.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Craig, Patricia (May–June 2021). "PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Val Warner: A Reminiscence". PN Review. 47 (5). Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Literature through the eyes of two Irish writers". TLS. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "Patricia Craig, VIAF ID 36933157". viaf.org. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Brankin, Una (13 November 2015). "Patricia: A literary childhood brought to book". belfasttelegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Craig, Patricia 1949–". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, by Patricia Craig" . 18 November 2015. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 Brankin, Una (13 November 2015). "Patricia: A literary childhood brought to book". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 O'Doherty, Malachi (8 January 2008). "Asking for Trouble, by Patricia Craig" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  9. 1 2 "Dr Patricia Craig" . Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Sibley, Brian (6 October 2014). "Mary Cadogan Obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  11. 1 2 Deane, Seamus (14 December 2002). "War and peace". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  12. ↑ "Queen's University Belfast – The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry". 10 April 2019.
  13. ↑ Elliott, Marianne (2 February 2013). "Who do you think you are?". The Irish Times . Retrieved 19 April 2020.
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