Shelley Silas is a British

United Kingdom

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 playwright born in Calcutta

Kolkata

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, India

India

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Career

In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London

London

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's Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

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. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.

Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award, creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;, adapting Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh

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's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet

Raj Quartet

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(with John Harvey).

She has also compiled and edited an anthology

Anthology

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 of short stories

Short Stories

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, 12 Days, published by Virago Press

Virago Press

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Stage Plays

• Shrapnel (1999)
• Falling (2002)
• Calcutta Kosher (2004)
• Mercy Fine (2005)
• Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (2008)

Radio Plays

• The Sound of Silence (2002)
• The Magpie Stories (2002)
• Collective Fascination (2005)
• Ink (2005)
• Nothing Happened (2005, co-written with Luke Sorba)
• Molly's Story (2007)
• I Am Emma Humphreys (2009)

Current Radio Commissions (2010)

• The People Next Door
• Mr Jones Goes Driving

Radio Adaptations

• Calcutta Kosher (2002)
• Only in London (2005)
• The Raj Quartet (2005)

Representation

Shelley Silas is represented by Katie Haines at The Agency for scripts, and Veronique Baxter at David Higham for books.

http://shelleysilas.wordpress.com/about/

External links

• List of Shelley's plays on Doollee
• Participant in Pride London Festival Fortnight 2009. Event: Pride Spotlights at Drill Hall Chenies Street on July 1st
• Radio plays listed on Diversity Website
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/14/gender.uk