Sarah Waters

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sarah Ann Waters OBE (born July 21, 1966 in Neyland , Wales ) is a British writer. She is best known for her novel Tipping the Velvet and her subsequent novels Affinity , Fingersmith and The Night Watch . Waters currently lives in Kennington , London .

Sarah Waters signs her book The Night Watch (2006)

Life

Waters was born in Neyland , Pembrokeshire , Wales in 1966 . Her mother was a housewife and her father was an engineer in an oil refinery. Waters describes her family as an idyll, very safe and cared for .

Waters earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Kent and a master's from Lancaster University, as well as a PhD for her dissertation, Wolfskins and togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present . Her dissertation served as inspiration and material for future books. As part of her work, she read nineteenth-century pornography, which led to the title of her first novel, Tipping the Velvet ; this is a Victorian slang term for cunnilingus . Her novels deal with lesbian subjects. Her first novel, Tipping the Velvet , was published by Virago in 1998. The novel won the Betty Trask Award and was listed for the Mail on Sunday / John Llewelyn Rhys Prize . In 2002 the novel was adapted for a three-part television series on BBC Two. Tipping the Velvet has been translated into 24 languages. Her second novel Affinity was published in 1999. Affinity won the Stonewall Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award . In 2002 her third novel, Fingersmith, was published. The novel was listed for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize . Finger Smith was for a series on BBC One adopted in which Sally Hawkins , Elaine Cassidy and Imelda Staunton play. Four years later, in 2006, Waters published the novel The Night Watch .

Fonts

Adaptations

  • Tipping the Velvet , 2002, BBC Two
  • Fingersmith , 2005, BBC One
  • Affinity , 2008, Logo Channel
  • The Night Watch , 2011, BBC Two
  • The Handmaiden , 2016, Park Chan-wook

Honors and prizes

Waters was named one of the UK's top 20 young writers by Granta in January 2003 . In the same year she received the South Bank Award for Literature . Waters was named Author of the Year for the 2003 British Book Awards . Each of her novels received additional awards.

Tipping the velvet

  • Betty Trask Award, 1999
  • Library Journal's Best Book of the Year, 1999
  • Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist), 1999
  • New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award, 1999
  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2000
  • Lambda Literary Award for Fiction, 2000

Affinity

  • Stonewall Book Award (American Library Association GLBT Roundtable Book Award), 2000
  • Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award (shortlist), 2000
  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2000
  • Lambda Literary Award for Fiction (shortlist), 2000
  • Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist), 2000
  • Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2000
  • Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, 2000

Fingersmith

  • British Book Awards Author of the Year, 2002
  • Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2002
  • Man Booker Prize for Fiction ( shortlist ), 2002
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2002

The Night Watch

  • Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2006
  • Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2006
  • Lambda Literary Award, 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Sarah Waters: Biography . sarahwaters.com. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
  2. ^ Lisa Allardice: Uncharted Waters , The Guardian. June 1, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2007. 
  3. ↑ Michelle McGrane: Sarah Waters on writing: 'If I waited for inspiration to strike, it would never happen!' (Interview) , LitNet. 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 24, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.litnet.co.za 
  4. ↑ http://catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/1fF9LuFTOe/MAINLIB/246850125/88
  5. ↑ Waters, Sarah (May 13, 2003). "Taking Velvet Public", The Advocate , Issue 889, pp. 59-60.
  6. ^ Sarah Waters: Interview , Time Out London. Retrieved February 24, 2007. 

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Waters, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waters, Sarah Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Neyland , Pembrokeshire, Wales