Susan Hill

Susan Elizabeth Hill CBE (* 2. February 1942 in Scarborough , today County North Yorkshire ) is a British writer and essayist.

Life

Hill is the daughter of a Royal Air Force (RAF) soldier and a seamstress. Her interest in theater and literature was aroused at school in her hometown. The family moved in 1958 to Coventry in the county of West Midlands , where her father found work in the automotive and aerospace industries. At Coventry High School, she studied English, French, history and Latin. At King's College London she received her degree in English. During this time she wrote her first novel, The Enclosure , which was published by Hutchinson in London in her first year of study.

In 1975 Hill married the literary scholar and Shakespeare connoisseur Stanley Wells, with whom she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon . Hill is an Anglican . With Wells she has two grown-up daughters. Hill now lives and works northeast of Oxford in Beckley, Oxfordshire .

Work

Among Hill's novels to date, the ghost stories written in the style of Gothic fiction are the best known. This includes the novella The Woman in Black , which was filmed in 2012 with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role . 1993 appeared Rebecca's Legacy (OT: Mrs. De Winter ), a sequel to Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca . There are also more than ten children's books and crime stories with the superintendent Simon Serailler as the main character. She wrote plays, short stories and non-fiction books and runs a blog . Susan Elizabeth Hill has her own publisher, Long Barn Books , which publishes one of her books every year. She wrote several scripts for the radio soap The Archers .

Awards and honors

• 1971: Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle
• 1972: Whitbread Novel Award, now the Costa Book Award for The Bird of Night
• 1973: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross
• 1988: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award) in the category: 6 to 8 year old readers for Can it Be True? A Christmas Story
• 2012: On the occasion of the Queen's Birthday Honors, appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE)

Publications in German

Detective novels

• Air and angels. Translation of Reinhild Boehnke. Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-60273-3 .
• Man's dark longing. Detective novel. Translation: Susanne Aeckerle. Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-63459-2 .
• Icy silence in the evening. Translation: Susanne Aeckerle. Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63731-9 .
• The soul's black ground. Translation: Susanne Aeckerle. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-63857-6 .
• The dead silence. Translation: Susanne Aeckerle and Marion Balkenhol. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-66366-0 .
• The Betrayal of Trust . Chatto & Windus, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7011-8001-0 .
• The Soul of Discretion: Simon Serrailler Book 8 . Chatto & Windus, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-7011-8765-1 .

Ghost stories

• The woman in Black. completely revised new edition. (OT: The Woman in Black. 1983), Knaur, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-50220-4 .
• The painting: a ghost story. Translation: Susanne Aeckerle. (OT: The Man in the Picture ), Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-66350-9 .
  • as e-book: Knaur, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-43420-8 .

Other works

• The Albatross and other Stories. Saturday Review Press, New York City 1975, ISBN 0-8415-0383-4 .
• How many steps do you give me? Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-903750-0 .
• Rebecca's legacy. (OT: Mrs DeWinter. 1993), Knaur, 1995, ISBN 3-426-19333-7 .
• The fight for Gullywith. (Children's book; OT: The Battle for Gullywith ), Rowohlt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-21494-3 .
• Mute echo. (Roman; OT: The Beacon. 2008), from the English by Andrea Stumpf. Gatsby bei Kampa, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-311-21007-8 .

Web links

• Author's website
• Susan Hill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Susan Hill in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Writer with a Yorkshire accent. In: FAZ . January 30, 2012, p. 30.