David Higham Prize for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1988) Winner
Carol Birch
キャロル・バーチ
Kyaroru Bāchi
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1951-00-00 （Manchester）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Manchester, England → Keele, England → Waterloo, London → County Cork, Ireland → North West England → Lancaster, England
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, lecturer, book critic, creative writing teacher
- Active Years
- 1988-2024
- Influenced By
- Shelagh Delaney, Louis Golding, Howard Spring
- Nominations
- Man Booker Prize longlist (Turn Again Home, 2003), Orange Prize longlist (Jamrach's Menagerie, 2011), Man Booker Prize shortlist (Jamrach's Menagerie, 2011)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keele University | English and American Studies | English and American Studies Department | — | — | United Kingdom |
Keele University
English and American Studies
/ English and American Studies Department
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | David Higham Prize | Life in the Palace | — | Society of Authors | won |
| 1991 | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | The Fog Line | — | — | won |
| 2014 | Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) | — | — | Lancaster University | awarded |
David Higham Prize
1988
Work:
Life in the Palace
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
won
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
1991
Work:
The Fog Line
Result:
won
Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)
2014
Organization:
Lancaster University
Result:
awarded
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Jamrach's Menagerie
2011 Historical fictionA tale of a boy and an adventure with a menagerie owner in 19th-century London.
adventureanimalspoverty
Translations
- Translated into German
Bibliography
- Life in the Palace
- The Fog Line
- The Unmaking
- Songs of the West
- Little Sister
- Come Back, Paddy Riley
- Turn Again Home
- In a Certain Light
- The Naming of Eliza Quinn
- Scapegallows
- Jamrach's Menagerie
- Orphans of the Carnival
- Cold Boy's Wood
- Shadow Girls
Translations by Author
- Several novels translated into German
- Jamrach's Menagerie into Romanian
Legacy
Recognized as a contemporary English novelist, winner of David Higham Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, with nominations for the Man Booker Prize.