S. R. Harris
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S. R. Harris or Sarah Reader Harris is a British-born Belgian writer, novelist, poet and publisher based in Brussels, best known for her children's books. Her work A Sheep Called Skye was adapted for stage by Nicola McCartney and performed at the National Theatre of Scotland in conjunction with puppeteer Ailie Cohen.{{cite news |title=A sheep's tale worth catching |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12767021.a-sheeps-tale-worth-catching |accessdate=18 August 2020 |work=The Herald |date=29 September 2007}}{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Mark |title=Molly Sweeney: an absorbing, psychological thriller: Mark Brown reviews Molly Sweeney and A Sheep Called Skye by the National Theatre of Scotland |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3668406/Molly-Sweeney-an-absorbing-psychological-thriller.html |accessdate=18 August 2020 |work=The Telegraph |date=8 October 2007}}{{cite news |last1=Dibdin |first1=Thom |title=How Scotland's national theatre is finally coming home |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/thom-dibdin-how-scotlands-national-theatre-is-finally-coming-home |accessdate=18 August 2020 |work=The Stage |date=22 September 2006}}{{cite journal |last1=Walmsley |first1=Ben |title=Re-defining rural marketing: Insights from touring theatre |journal=International Journal of Rural Management |date=2012 |volume=8 |issue=1–2 |pages=49–62 |doi=10.1177/0973005212461992 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/79372/1/Reconceptualising%20rural%20marketing%20-%20insights%20from%20touring%20theatre%20-%20final%20draft.pdf |accessdate=18 August 2020}}
Biography
S. R. Harris was born Sarah Margaret Reader Harris in 1959, the niece of Dame Diana Reader Harris and granddaughter of John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst.{{cite news |last1=Dymond |first1=Percy |title=The Wakehursts in Chelsea |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19650527/103/0009 |accessdate=19 August 2020 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=27 May 1965 |quote=Our four grand-children, Michael and Sarah Reader Harris and Timothy and Christina Loder—the boys are seven and the girls five}} Having graduated from Sherborne School for Girls, she attended University College London before transferring to University of Bradford.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
Children's books
The Skye series tells the story of a sheep by the name of Skye who lives on the Scottish Isle of Skye. Following her 2000 A Sheep Called Skye, Harris added further books to the series, including To Skye with Love, A Patch of Skye, and No Place like Skye.{{Cite web|url=http://asheepcalledskye.com|title=A Sheep Called Skye|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} The first book has since gone into Dutch translation as Het Eiland van de Nevelen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.boek.be/boek/het-eiland-van-de-nevelen|title=Het Eiland van de Nevelen|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} She has also published several original children's books in Dutch, including Het Mysterie van de Bienoboon and Vlieglessen van een Vlegel.
Fiction
In 2018, Harris's novel Plums Taste Different Here was listed for the Yeovil Literary Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2018_Results.html|title=Yeovil Prize 2018|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{failed verification|date=August 2020}}
Poetry
In 2017, Harris was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, an international competition for creative writers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/content/2017-shortlists|title=Bridport Prize 2017|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014556/https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/content/2017-shortlists|archive-date=12 October 2018|access-date=|url-status=dead}}
Activism
Harris has used poetry to address the European migrant crisis in Brussels.{{Cite web|url=https://www.internationaledagvrijwilligerswerk.be/poezie-in-het-klein-kasteeltje/|title=Poetry in het Klein Kasteeltje|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://rabbko.be/fr/publication/cahier-interact-2-until-i-find-you-de-la-participation-artistique-et-culturelle-des-primo-arrivants-à-bruxelles|title=Brussels Kunstenoverleg|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lasso.be/nl/inspiratie-en-documentatie/detail/lassobkorab--cahier---interact--2--until-i-find-you.-de-la-participation-artistique-et-culturelle-des-primo-arrivants-a-bruxelles|title=Lasso, Brussels|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} With Marieke Slovin Lewis and people living at the Fedasil Petit-Chateau Arrival Centre, Harris wrote and published On the Move: Poems and Songs of Migration.{{cite web |title=On the Move |url=https://www.fishpond.co.th/Books/On-Move-Marieke-Slovin-Lewis-Sarah-Reader-Harris/9781734685800 |website=Fishpond |accessdate=19 August 2020}}
She is active in a variety of educational and cultural programs through her writing.{{Cite web|url=https://brussels-express.eu/author/sarahreader/|title=Brussels Express|last=|first=|date=7 October 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://visit.brussels/en/event/Snug-Harbor-Sarah-Reader-Harris-and-Mark-SaFranko|title=Brussels City Website, Events|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
Harris is also a member of the Brussels Writers' Circle.{{Cite web|url=https://brusselswriterscircle.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/works-in-progress-plums-taste-different-here/|title=Brussels Writers' Circle|last=|first=|date=2016|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=https://harvardsquareeditions.org/portfolio-items/the-circle/|title=Harvard Square Editions|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.snugharbor.eu/wp/?p=129 Sarah Reader Harris at Snug Harbor]
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Category:British women writers
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Category:21st-century British poets