Alice Jolly
{{Short description|English novelist, playwright and memoirist}}
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Alice Jolly (born 1966) is an English novelist, playwright and memoirist.
Career
Jolly graduated from Worcester College, Oxford with a degree in Modern History in 1989.Oxford University, Department for Continuing Education [https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/mstcwprofiles web-page] (accessed on 5 September 2016)
She teaches on the Creative Writing M.St. course at the University of Oxford.[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/alice-jollys-crowdfunded-memoir-wins-2016-pen-ackerley-prize-353841 Alice Jolly's crowdfunded memoir wins PEN Ackerley Prize], The Bookseller (13 July 2016)
In 2014, Jolly was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for her short story, Ray the Rottweiler.[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/regulars/fiction-ray-the-rottweiler Fiction: Ray the Rottweiler], Prospect, January 2015
In 2016, she was awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize for her memoir, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns, the publication of which was crowdfunded.
Her novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was runner up for The Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019 and was also longlisted for The Ondaatje Prize also in 2019.
She was awarded an O. Henry Award in 2021. She reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review and The Guardian.
Jolly is married to a lawyer, Stephen Kinsella. They have two children, Thomas and Hope, and live in Gloucestershire.Cotswold Life, Living with Hope, 1 April 2016
Published works
- What the Eye Doesn’t See (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- If Only You Knew (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
- Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound, 2015) is a memoir of Jolly's journey of using a surrogate to carry her second child.{{cite news|author1=Helen Rumbelow|title=Surrogacy? It makes the Virgin Birth seem easy|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/surrogacy-it-makes-the-virgin-birth-seem-easy-xplhlnv9zsv |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2017|work=The Times|date=20 July 2015|pages=6–7}} [http://alicejolly.com/alicejollypdf/alicejolly_times.pdf Alt URL]
- Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound, 2018)
- Between the Regions of Kindness (Unbound 2019)
- A Saint in Swindon (Fairlight, 2020).
Jolly has also written a number of plays for the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham and the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
References
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External links
- Alice Jolly's personal [http://alicejolly.com/wp/ web-site]
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Category:21st-century English short story writers
Category:21st-century English memoirists
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:English dramatists and playwrights
Category:Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Category:English women memoirists