Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson (2012)

Jill Dawson (born April 8, 1962 in Durham ) is a British writer.

Life

Jill Dawson grew up in Staffordshire, Essex and Yorkshire. She studied American Studies at the University of Nottingham and received an MA in Literature from Sheffield Hallam University . Dawson published his own poems in magazines and edited two anthologies with Virago . In 1991 she wrote a non-fiction book for teenagers How Do I Look? Her first novel Trick of the Light was published in 1996. Her novel Fred and Edie was based on the historic murder trial of Thompson and Bywaters and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000/01 .

Dawson taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia, among others . She lives in the Fens with her family .

Works (selection)

• (Ed.): School Tales: Stories by Young Women . Women's Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-7043-4922-3
• White Fish with Painted Nails , Slow Dancer Press, 1990 ISBN 978-1-871033-26-7
• How do I look? . Virago Press, 1990 ISBN 9781853812224
• (Ed.): The Virago Book of Wicked Verse . Virago Press, 1992 ISBN 978-1-85381-387-0
• (Ed.): The Virago Book of Love Letters . Virago Press, 1994 ISBN 978-1-85381-723-6
• Kisses on paper . Faber and Faber, 1994 ISBN 978-0-571-19864-1
• Trick of the Light . Scepter, 1997 ISBN 978-0-340-65383-8
  • The House on Mount Coyote: Roman . Translation of Suanne Goga-Klinkenberg. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2002
• Magpie . Scepter, 1998 ISBN 978-0-340-65384-5
• with Margo Daly (Ed.): Wild Ways: New Stories about Women on the Road . Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 ISBN 978-0-340-69516-6
• Fred and Edie . Scepter, 2000 ISBN 978-0-618-19728-6
  • Edith & Fred: Roman . Translation of Suanne Goga-Klinkenberg. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2002
• with Margo Daly (Ed.): Gas and Air: Tales of Pregnancy and Birth . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002
• Wild boy. Novel . Scepter, 2003 ISBN 978-0-340-82296-8
• Watch Me Disappear . Scepter, 2006 ISBN 978-0-340-82298-2
• The great lover. Novel . Scepter, 2009 ISBN 978-0-340-93565-1
• Lucky Bunny . Scepter, 2011 ISBN 978-0-340-93567-5
• The Crime Writer . Scepter, 2016 ISBN 978-1444731118
• The Language of the Birds. Novel . Scepter, 2019 (via politician Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan )

literature

• Catherine Taylor: The Language of the Birds . Review, in: Financial Times, May 4, 2019, p. 10

Web links

• Literature by and about Jill Dawson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Jill Dawson , website
• Jill Dawson , at the British Council , January 4th 2011