Tessa hadley biography definition

Tessa Hadley is a British author of novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Tessa hadley biography definition

She won a Windham Campbell Award in , the Hawthornden Prize in , the Edge Hill Prize in , and has been twice longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her latest book, Late in the Day, is published in February.

Who were your literary influences and heroes as you were growing up?

Where to begin?

I was bookish as soon as I knew how to read. Our local library, where I went with my family - and with junior school too, every week - was formative in making a passionate reader of me. I think it was when I promoted myself to reading adult books, climbing audaciously up three steps covered with yellow linoleum in the library to the adult section, that I began to be aware of a relationship to the writers of the books as well as to the stories and characters inside them.

I was drawn to the novels of Elizabeth Bowen, an Anglo-Irish writer of the mid-twentieth century, at first because I liked the atmospheric wood