Betty Trask Prize and Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 18 (2001) Winner
Maggie O'Farrell
マギー・オファレル
Maggie O'Farrell
Aliases:
Margaret Helen O'Farrell
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1972 （Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland）
- Nationality
- Irish, British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Coleraine, Northern Ireland → Dublin, Ireland → Wales → Scotland → Hong Kong → London, UK → Edinburgh, Scotland
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Journalist, Creative Writing Tutor
- Active Years
- 2000-2025
- Affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Memberships
- Royal Society of Literature
- Nominations
- Costa Novel Award shortlist (Instructions for a Heatwave, 2013; This Must Be The Place, 2017), PEN/Ackerley Prize shortlist (I Am, I Am, I Am, 2018), Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist (The Marriage Portrait, 2023)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College) | Faculty of English | English Literature | — | — | United Kingdom |
| North Berwick High School | — | — | — | — | Scotland |
| Brynteg Comprehensive School | — | — | — | — | Wales |
New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College)
Faculty of English
/ English Literature
Year of Graduation:
1990
Country:
United Kingdom
Read English Literature
North Berwick High School
Country:
Scotland
Brynteg Comprehensive School
Country:
Wales
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Betty Trask Award | After You'd Gone | 小説 | Society of Authors | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Somerset Maugham Award | The Distance Between Us | — | Society of Authors | 受賞 |
| 2010 | Costa Novel Award | The Hand That First Held Mine | 小説 | Costa Book Awards | 受賞 |
| 2020 | Women's Prize for Fiction | Hamnet | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2020 | National Book Critics Circle Award | Hamnet | フィクション | — | 受賞 |
Betty Trask Award
2001
Work:
After You'd Gone
Category:
小説
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
受賞
Somerset Maugham Award
2005
Work:
The Distance Between Us
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
受賞
Costa Novel Award
2010
Work:
The Hand That First Held Mine
Category:
小説
Organization:
Costa Book Awards
Result:
受賞
Women's Prize for Fiction
2020
Work:
Hamnet
Result:
受賞
National Book Critics Circle Award
2020
Work:
Hamnet
Category:
フィクション
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
-
Edition 40 (2010) Winner
Works
Major Works
After You'd Gone
2000 FictionA family's story after a shocking accident
LossFamily
The Hand That First Held Mine
2010 FictionInterwoven stories of motherhood and art
MotherhoodMemory
Hamnet
2020 Historical FictionStory around the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet
LossFamilyPlague
Adaptations
- [Stage] Hamnet (2023)
- [Film] Hamnet / Chloé Zhao (2025)
The Marriage Portrait
2022 Historical FictionBased on the short life of Lucrezia de' Medici
MarriagePoisoningPower
Adaptations
- [Film] The Marriage Portrait / Audrey Diwan
Bibliography
- After You'd Gone (2000)
- My Lover's Lover (2002)
- The Distance Between Us (2004)
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006)
- The Hand That First Held Mine (2010)
- Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
- This Must Be the Place (2016)
- Hamnet (2020)
- The Marriage Portrait (2022)
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (2017, memoir)
- Where Snow Angels Go (2020, children's)
- The Boy Who Lost His Spark (2022, children's)
Adaptations
- Hamnet: RSC stage adaptation (2023)
- Hamnet: Film (dir. Chloé Zhao, 2025)
- The Marriage Portrait: Film (dir. Audrey Diwan, TBA)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Non-chronological narrativeMultiple perspectivesEmotionally rich prose
- Recurring Motifs
- Near-death experiencesFamily bondsHistorical events
Health
-
Encephalitis8歳時Hospitalised for over a year, unable to walk initially but recovered; fostered love of literature
Legacy
Acclaimed novelist with multiple awards including Women's Prize. Works translated into 30+ languages
In Popular Culture
- Hamnet film adaptation with major stars
Trivia
- Peripatetic childhood across Ireland, Wales, Scotland
- One child has severe allergies
- Married to writer William Sutcliffe