Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam, OBE , FRSL , (born Jean Mary Pearson July 11, 1928 in Coatham , North Yorkshire ) is an English writer . She writes short stories , novels and children's books . She writes reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and writes for BBC Radio .

life and work

Jane Gardam attended the Saltburn High School for Girls before a scholarship at Bedford College of the University of London studying English. After graduation, she worked as a traveling librarian for Red Cross hospital libraries in 1951 . In 1952 she started editing for the Weldon Ladies Journal and Time and Tide . She published her first book at the age of 43, after her third child started school.

She has received numerous literary prizes for her work. Her first book of stories for adults, Black Faces, White Faces , which appeared in 1975, received the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize . Her first novel God on the Rocks was awarded the French Prix ​​Baudelaire . The novel was also adapted for television. In 2016 it was celebrated in Germany as “the literary discovery of the season”.

In 2009 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Gardam is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Sandwich , East Kent.

Works (selection)

• A long way from Verona . 1971
  • Far from Verona . Novel. Translation Isabel Bogdan . Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26040-5 .
• The Hollow Land . 1981
  • Bell and Harry . Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26199-0 .
• Crusoe's Daughter . 1985
  • Robinson's daughter . Novel. Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser Berlin, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26783-1 .
• Faith Fox: a nativity . Sinclair-Stevenson, London 1996.
  • Heavenly prospects . Translation Eva Malsch. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999.

Romantic trilogy:

• Old Filth. 2004.
  • An impeccable man . Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser, Munich 2015.
• The Man in the Wooden Hat. 2009.
  • A faithful woman. Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser, Munich 2016.
• Last friends. 2013.
  • Last friends . Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser, Berlin 2016.
• The stories . 2014
  • The Privilege Hill People: Stories. Translation Isabel Bogdan. Hanser, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7632-6988-4 .

Audio books

• 2016: an impeccable man. Read by Ulrich Noethen . Audiobook Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-95713-014-3 .
• 2016: a loyal woman. Read by Eva Mattes . Audiobook Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-95713-025-9 .
• 2016: last friends. Read by Felix von Manteuffel . Audiobook Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-95713-056-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jane Gardam in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jane Gardam. British Council , accessed December 13, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Voigt: One day everything will be gone. In: Literatur-Spiegel. April 2016, p. 4.
2. ↑ Claudia Voigt: One day everything will be gone. In: Literatur-Spiegel. April 2016, p. 4.
3. ^ The London Gazette , December 31, 2008 .
4. ^ Hanser Verlag (ed.): Jane Gardam . ( hanser-literaturverlage.de [accessed on December 13, 2015]).