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Sophie Hannah (born 1971or1972 [1] ) is a British poet and novelist.
Hannah was born in Manchester, England; [2] her mother is the author Adèle Geras. [3] She attended Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury [ citation needed ] and the University of Manchester. [4] From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, [1] and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. [5] She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, [1] where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. [3]
Hannah published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door, at the age of 24. Her style is often compared to the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. She has published five collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. In 2004 she was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE (including "Rubbish at Adultery" and "Your Dad Did What?"), A-level, and degree level across the UK. [6]
Hannah is better known for her psychological crime novels which have been Top Ten Sunday Times bestsellers and sold millions of copies worldwide. Her first novel, Little Face, was published in 2006, and her latest contemporary crime novel, The Couple at the Table, was published in 2022.
Hannah has written a series of five novels based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. [7] Hannah has referred to such works as "continuation novels," a subgenre of the crime novel. Her latest in this series, Hercule Poirot's Silent Night, was an Amazon UK No. 1 bestseller.
Hannah's murder mystery musical The Mystery of Mr. E (co-written with composer Annette Armitage) was adapted into a feature film in 2023 and released on Amazon Prime. [8] [9]
Hannah has translated three children's picture books from Swedish as well as writing a work of social psychology entitled How to Hold a Grudge: from resentment to contentment: the power of grudges to transform your life. [10] In 2023, Hannah released a self-help book titled The Double Best Method. [11]
She won the 2023 Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library, [12] and is a member of the prestigious Detection Club.
Hannah participated in the creation of a master's degree in Crime and Thriller Writing at the University of Cambridge, for which she is the main teacher and course director. [13]
Hannah also founded and is CEO of, and coach at, Dream Author Coaching Ltd, a coaching programme for writers and/or anyone who wants to write.
The Swedish-language Moomin picture books were written and illustrated by Tove Jansson.
