June Knox-Mawer
{{short description|British writer}}
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| pseudonym = June Knox-Mawer
| birth_name = June Ellis
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1930|05|10}}
| birth_place = Wrexham, Wales, UK
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|04|19|1930|05|10}}
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| occupation = Writer, novelist, radio broadcaster
| language = English
| nationality = British
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| period = 1961–2001
| genre = Romance
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June Knox-Mawer, née Ellis (10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales – 19 April 2006) was a British writer of non-fiction books and romance novels and a radio broadcaster. In 1992, her novel Sandstorm won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=7 October 2012}}
Biography
Knox-Mawer was born June Ellis on 10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales, UK, daughter of Frank Ellis, an accountant,{{Citation| title = Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's Who | publisher = Pacific Publications | year = 1968}} and was raised in rural Denbighshire. She worked on the Chester Chronicle.{{Citation|title=June Knox-Mawer's Obituary at The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1516826/June-Knox-Mawer.html|date=7 October 2012}} In 1951, she married Ronald Knox-Mawer (1925–2009), a barrister and member of the colonial judiciary; they had a son a and a daughter. The married couple lived in Arabia and Fiji, which inspired her writing. In 1972, they returned to the UK. She died on 19 April 2006, aged 75.
Bibliography
=Non-fiction=
- The Sultans Came to Tea (1961)
- A Gift of Islands: Living in Fiji (1965)
- A South Sea Spell (1975)
- Tales from Paradise: Memories of the British in the South Pacific (1986)
- A Ram in the Well: A Welsh Homecoming (2001)
=Novels=
- Marama (1972) aka Marama of the Islands
- Sandstorm (1992)
- The Shadow of Wings (1995)
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Category:English romantic fiction writers
Category:20th-century English novelists
Category:21st-century British writers
Category:20th-century English women writers
Category:21st-century English women writers