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Rachel Joyce

レイチェル・ジョイス

Reicheru Joisu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1962-01-01
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Residence History
Gloucestershire

Career

Occupations
writer, actress, radio playwright
Active Years
2007-2025
Nominations
2012 Man Booker Prize longlist

Awards

Tinniswood Award
2007
Work: To Be a Pilgrim
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: 共同受賞
National Book Awards New Writer of the Year
2012
Work: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Result: 受賞
Prix Littéraire des Jeunes Européens
2014
Work: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Result: 受賞
Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
2021
Work: Miss Benson's Beetle
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

2012 novel
Adaptations
  • [musical] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2025)

Perfect

2013 novel

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

2014 novel

A Snow Garden and Other Stories

2015 short stories

The Music Shop

2017 novel

Miss Benson's Beetle

2020 novel

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

2022 novel

Bibliography

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  • Perfect
  • The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
  • A Snow Garden and Other Stories
  • The Music Shop
  • Miss Benson's Beetle
  • Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Legacy

British writer whose debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won several awards.

Trivia

  • Sister of actress Emily Joyce.
  • Married to actor Paul Venables, with four children.