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Novelist Beryl Bainbridge passes away

Novelist Beryl Bainbridge passes away

The novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge has died. She was 75.

Ms. Bainbridge had been in hospital since last week after the recurrence of cancer.

Born in Liverpool, Ms. Bainbridge had first worked as an actress with the city’s repertory theatre. 

Her first novel to be published was A Weekend with Claud (1967). In the 1950s she had written Harriet Said but it was not published until 1972. 

The first of five nominations for the Booker Prize was achieved in 1973 for The Dressmaker. She never won the prize.

Ms. Bainbridge won the Whitbread novel award twice: in 1977 with Injury Time and in 1996 with Every Man For Himself. 

She was made a Dame in 2000.

 

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