British Book Awards (The Nibbies)
1 appearances
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Edition 15 (2004) Winner
Lynne Truss
リン・トラス
Lynne Truss
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1955-05-31 （Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Journalist, Novelist, Radio broadcaster, Dramatist
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- Detection Club, Royal Society of Literature
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffin Girls' School | — | General | — | — | England |
| University College London | — | English Language and Literature | 一等学位 | — | England |
Tiffin Girls' School
General
Country:
England
University College London
English Language and Literature
Degree:
一等学位
Year of Graduation:
1977
Country:
England
First-class degree in English Language and Literature
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2003 Non-fictionA best-selling humorous guide to punctuation in English.
PunctuationGrammarLinguistic prescription
Translations
- Available in Japanese
Bibliography
- With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
- Tennyson's Gift
- Going Loco
- Cat Out of Hell
- The Lunar Cats
- A Shot in the Dark (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
- The Man That Got Away: A Constable Twitten Mystery
- Murder by Milk Bottle (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
- Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
- Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the Margins
- Tennyson and his Circle
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
- Glued to the Goggle Box: 50 Years of British TV with Freeze-Frames
- Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life
- Get Her Off the Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life
- The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes!
- Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- HumorousSatiricalConversational
- Recurring Motifs
- Linguistic correctnessEveryday rudenessSports journalism
Legacy
Known as a champion of English grammar and punctuation, with her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves becoming a global bestseller. Also popular for crime fiction series and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Trivia
- Not to be confused with Liz Truss, former UK Prime Minister.
- Inducted into the Detection Club in 2021.