Tessa Hadley

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Tessa Hadley (born Nichols, February 28, 1956 in Bristol ) is a British writer.

Life

Nichols studied English with a BA in 1978 and a teacher's exam (PGCE) at Clare College of the University of Cambridge . She worked for a short time as a teacher, married lecturer Eric Hadley in 1982 and moved with him to Cardiff . They have three sons and three other sons from Eric Hadley's first marriage. In addition to family work, she began to write literary, but could not find a publisher. She and her husband edited two children's history books.

Hadley studied creative writing at Bath Spa University College in 1993/94 , and in 1998 she received her doctorate from the University of the West of England with a literary dissertation on Pleasure and Propriety in Henry James . Since then she has taught creative writing in Bath, and in 2016 she received a professorship for this in Bath. She works in literary studies and has published on Henry James , Jane Austen , Elizabeth Bowen , Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, among others .

Hadley writes realistic novels and short stories about family matters. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home , was published in 2002 and was on the longlist of the Guardian First Book Award . Hadley's novel The Master Bedroom was named on the 2008 Orange Prize longlist , as was The London Train in 2011 . In 2016 she won a Windham – Campbell Literature Prize and the Hawthornden Prize .

Hadley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and is also a member of the Welsh Academy . She is co-editor of the literary magazine New Welsh Review .

In 2011 she was a member of the jury for the International DUBLIN Literary Award , then for the O. Henry Award and since then for other literary awards.

Works (selection)

  • with Eric Hadley: Legends of the Sun and Moon . Short stories. 1983
  • with Eric Hadley: Earth, Air, Wind, and Fire , short stories. 1985
  • Accidents in the home . 2002
  • Everything Will Be All Right . 2003
  • Deputy , in: AL Kennedy (Ed.): Cool Britannia. Young literature from Great Britain . Berlin: Wagenbach, 2006 ISBN 9783803125330
  • The master bedroom . 2007
  • Sunstroke and Other Stories . Short stories. 2007
  • The London Train . 2011
  • Married love . Short stories. 2013
  • Clever girl . 2013
  • The past . 2015
    • Then: Roman . Translation by Sabine Schwenk. Munich: Piper,
  • Late in the day . Jonathan Cape, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tessa Hadley , in: Andrew Maunder: Encyclopedia of the British short story . New York: Facts on File, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hadley, Tessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol