Tessa Hadley | |
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.jpg) Tessa Hadley in 2011 | |
| Born | Tessa Jane Nichols 28 February 1956 Bristol, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge (BA) Bath Spa University (MA) University of the West of England (PhD) |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Eric Hadley |
| Children | 3 |
Tessa Jane Hadley FRSL (born 28 February 1956; née Nichols)[1] is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham-Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's finest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful."[2] As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
- ^ Andrew Maunder (2015), Encyclopedia of the British Short Story, Infobase Learning, ISBN 978-1438140704
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