Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam OBE (born 11 July 1928, Coatham, North Yorkshire) 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 was married to David Gardam QC and had three children, Tim, Kitty and Tom. Tim Gardam is the Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Her daughter was the botanical artist Catharine Nicholson (1958-2011), whose pen and ink drawings won her three Royal Horticultural Society gold medals. Tom Gardam now lives in Boston Massachusetts.

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: Patrick Skene Catling (12 September 2009). "Rich pickings". The Spectator 311 (9446): 34, 36. http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/5316821/rich-pickings.thtml. Retrieved 20 June 2011. 

Omnibus

• Bridget and William / Horse (1987)

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)

Non-fiction

• The Iron Coast (1994)

Awards and nominations

• David Higham Prize for Fiction (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 (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.
• Works by or about Jane Gardam in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Obituary of Catharine Gardam Nicholson in the Telegraph: [2]
• Interview in The Guardian, 29 July 2005. [3] retrieved on 12/23/11.
• Interview in The Guardian, 7 January 2011 [4] retrieved on 12/21/11.