Jane Harris

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Jane Harris (born November 20, 1961 in Belfast ) is a British writer.

Life

Jane Harris moved with her parents to Glasgow in 1965 , where she attended school and studied English literature at the University of Glasgow . She also trained as an actor at the East 15 Acting School in London . Then she made her way through various jobs in other European countries and began to write short stories that she was able to place in anthologies.

She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) with Malcolm Bradbury , where she also received her PhD, and later taught creative writing at the UEA. Since then she has been working as a freelance writer. From 1992 to 1994 she taught a writing class at Durham Prison .

Harris works for The Literary Consultancy as a novelist and story editor in film productions.

Harris received several literary grants. Her first novel, The observations , made it onto the longlist of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007 .

Jane Harris is married to the film director Tom Shankland . You live in East London .

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.): Words from within: tales and experiences of prison and prisoners . Introducing Judy Ward. Kingston: Two Heads, 1993.
  • The observations . New York: Viking, 2006
  • Gillespie and I . New York: Harper Perennial, 2011
  • Sugar Money . London: Faber, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Harris, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast