Mary M. Talbot - World Literary Awards

Profile

Gender: Female
Born: 1954 （Wigan, United Kingdom）
Nationality: British
Languages: English
Residence History: Wigan

Career

Occupations: Author, Academic
Active Years: 1992-2024
Affiliations: University of Sunderland

Education

Institution	Faculty	Department	Degree	Period	Country
Lancaster University	—	Department of Linguistics and English Language	PhD	—	United Kingdom

Lancaster University

Department of Linguistics and English Language

Degree: PhD

Country: United Kingdom

PhD in critical discourse analysis

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
2012	Costa Book Award	Dotter of Her Father's Eyes	biography	Costa Book Awards	winner

Costa Book Award

2012

Work: Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

Category: biography

Organization: Costa Book Awards

Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Costa Book Awards 1 appearances

Edition 42 (2012) Winner

Works

Major Works

Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

2012 Graphic novel

Autobiographical graphic novel about her relationship with her father, illustrated by husband Bryan Talbot.

FamilyGender

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette

2014 Graphic novel

Graphic novel about the suffragette movement, illustrated by Kate Charlesworth.

FeminismHistory

The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia

2016 Graphic novel

Graphic novel about the vision of utopia, illustrated by Bryan Talbot.

UtopiaPolitics

Rain (Graphic Novel)

2019 Graphic novel

Graphic novel illustrated by Bryan Talbot.

Environment

Language and gender: an introduction

1998 Academic book

Introduction to language and gender.

LinguisticsGender

Style & Themes

Literary Style: Critical discourse analysisGraphic novels
Recurring Motifs: GenderFeminismFamily

Legacy

Award-winning graphic novelist who won the Costa biography prize and academic author in language and gender studies.

Trivia

Married to renowned comics artist Bryan Talbot.
Winner of the Costa Book Award in the biography category.