Jane Mary Gardam OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born 11 July 1928, Coatham

Coatham

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, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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) is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is six programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award, twice. She is mother of Tim Gardam

Tim Gardam

Tim Gardam MBE is a British journalist and educator.Gardam is the son of the novelist Jane Gardam. He studied at Westminster School and gained a double first in English from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He subsequently worked at the BBC , and as director of programmes at Channel 4...

, Principal of St Anne's College

St Anne's College

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, Oxford

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. Her daughter was the botanical artist Catharine Nicholson (1958-2011), whose pen and ink drawings won her three Royal Horticultural Society

Royal Horticultural Society

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 gold medals.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

Novels

• A Few Fair Days (1971)
• A Long Way from Verona (1971)
• The Summer After the Funeral (1973)
• Black Faces, White Faces (1975)
• Bilgewater (1976)
• God on the Rocks (1978)
• The Sidmouth Letters (1980)
• Bridget and William (1981)
• The Hollow Land (1981)
• Horse (1982)
• Kit (1983)
• Crusoe's Daughter (1985)
• Kit in Boots (1986)
• Swan (1987)
• Through the Doll's House Door (1987)
• The Queen of the Tambourine (1991)
• Black Woolly Pony (1993)
• Faith Fox (1996)
• Tufty Bear (1996)
• Missing the Midnight (1997)
• The Green Man (1998)
• The Flight of the Maidens (2000)
• Old Filth (2004)
• The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009)
  • Reviewed:

Collections

• The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983)
• Kit / Kit in Boots (1988)
• Showing the Flag and Other Stories (1989)
• Trio: Three Stories from Cheltenham (1993)
• Going into a Dark House (1994)
• Animal Stories (1995)
• Magical Stories (1995)
• Stories for Five-Year-Olds (1995)
• Stories for Six-Year-Olds (1995)
• The Kit Stories (1998)
• The People on Privilege Hill (2007)

Awards and nominations

• David Higham Prize for Fiction
  David Higham Prize for Fiction
  The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of the late David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories...
  
   (1975): Black Faces, White Faces
• Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1975): Black Faces, White Faces
• The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978): God on the Rocks
• Whitbread Children's Book Award (1983): The Hollow Land
• Katherine Mansfield Award (1984): The Pangs of Love
• Prix Baudelaire (France) (1989): God on the Rocks
• Whitbread Novel Award (1991): The Queen of the Tambourine
• PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1995): Going Into A Dark House
• Heywood Hill Literary Prize
  Heywood Hill Literary Prize
  The Heywood Hill Literary Prize was awarded yearly to a writer, editor, reviewer, collector or publisher for a lifelong contribution to the enjoyment of books. Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire sponsored the award, which included a prize worth £15,000, until his death in 2004. Since then,...
  
   (1999): for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature
• Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005): Old Filth
• National Short Story Prize nominee: The People on Privilege Hill

External links

• Page at ContemporaryWriters.com.
• Obituary of Catharine Gardam Nicholson in the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/8626672/Catharine-Nicholson.html