Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (2000) Winner
Bella Bathurst
ベラ・バスースト
Bella Bathurst
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1969-01-01 （London）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London → Scotland
Career
- Occupations
- writer, photojournalist, furniture maker
- Active Years
- 1999-2021
- Nominations
- Nominated for Guardian First Book Award (1999), Longlisted for Orange Prize (Special)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Somerset Maugham Award | The Lighthouse Stevensons | — | Society of Authors | Winner |
Somerset Maugham Award
2000
Work:
The Lighthouse Stevensons
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Lighthouse Stevensons
1999 Non-fictionThe extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson.
lighthousesfamily historyengineering
Bibliography
- The Lighthouse Stevensons
- Special
- The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th-Century to the Present Day
- The Bicycle Book
- The Omega Point: The search for the secret of human consciousness
- Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found
- Field Work: What Land Does to People What People Do to Land
Health
-
Hearing loss20代から12年後までExplored in her 2017 book Sound.
Legacy
Won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2000 for The Lighthouse Stevensons. Also wrote about her personal experience of losing and regaining hearing.