Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd [ ʃəˈvɔːn ] (born February 4, 1960 in London , † August 21, 2007 in Oxford ) was an Irish- British writer .
life and work
Siobhan Dowd went to a Catholic school in London and studied in Oxford , where she lived with her husband Geoff until her death. She worked as an editor at PEN International and as a freelance writer. In 2006 she published her acclaimed debut novel Pure Cry ( A Swift Pure Cry ). After three years of illness, Dowd died of breast cancer in August 2007 at the age of 47 .
In 2011, Patrick Ness processed an unfinished novel idea from Dowd with the novel Seven Minutes After Midnight . Both had never met, but had the same editor. The book about a boy confronted with his mother's cancer was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2012.
Works
-
A Swift Pure Cry (2006); German Ein pure Schrei (2007), ISBN 978-3-551-58158-7
- Branford Boase Award 2007
- Eilís Dillon Award 2007
- Shortlisted Carnegie Medal 2007
- Shortlist for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2006
- Longlist for the Guardian Award 2006
- Shortlist of the German Youth Literature Award 2007
- The London Eye Mystery (2007); dt. The boy who vanished into thin air (2009), ISBN 978-3-551-58188-4
-
Bog Child (2008); German beginning and end of all grief is this place (2009), ISBN 978-3-551-58208-9
- Shortlist Guardian Award 2008
- Carnegie Medal 2009
- Solace of the Road ; German On the Other Side of the Sea (2011), ISBN 978-3-551-58189-1 - unpublished during his lifetime
- Seven minutes after midnight (2011), Patrick Ness has added the novel fragment by Siobhan Dowd.
Web links
- Literature by and about Siobhan Dowd in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Siobhan Dowd at perlentaucher.de
- Siobhan Dowd in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Siobhan Dowd Trust (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masters, Tim: Carnegie Medal: Patrick Ness book A Monster Calls scoops double honors at bbc.co.uk, June 14, 2012 (accessed June 15, 2012).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dowd, Siobhan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish-British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 2007 |
| Place of death | Oxford |