Sarah Winman
{{short description|British author and actress (born 1964)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sarah Winman
| image = Sarah Winman at Durham Book Festival.jpg
| caption = Winman at the 2017 Durham Book Festival
| birth_name = Sarah Winman
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|12|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ilford, Essex, England
| nationality = British
| occupation = Novelist and Actress
| years_active = 1987–present
}}
Sarah Winman (born 24 December 1964) is a British author and actress.{{cite web |title=About The Author |url=https://www.foyles.co.uk/Sarah-Winman |website=Foyles UK |accessdate=6 October 2018}}
Biography
In 2011, Winman's debut novel, When God Was a Rabbit (2011), became an international bestseller and won Winman several awards including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.galaxynationalbookawards.com/winners2011.asp?|title=2011 Galaxy National Book Awards – The Winners|work=galaxynationalbookawards.com|accessdate=29 January 2012}}
Winman's second novel, A Year of Marvellous Ways (2015), was published on 18 June 2015.Headline Publishing Group (2016). A Year of Marvellous Ways – Sarah Winman. Headline Books. Retrieved from https://www.headline.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780755390946.
Winman's third novel, Tin Man,{{cite web |title=Review 'Tin Man' |url=http://www.startribune.com/review-tin-man-by-sarah-winman/482324391/ |website=Star Tribune |date=11 May 2018 |accessdate=6 October 2018}} was published on 27 July 2017 and shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards.{{cite web |title=Sarah Winman Tin Man |url=https://www.headline.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780755390953 |website=Headline UK |accessdate=6 October 2018}}
Winman's fourth novel, Still Life, was published on 1 June 2021.
Winman is an openly lesbian woman, who came out in the early 80’s. {{cite web|url=https://www.matildabookshop.com.au/sarah-winman|title=Sarah Winman Q&A}}
Acting credits
- A Quiet Conspiracy (1989)
- Act of Will (1989)
- Chimera (1991)
- Stay Lucky (1991)
- El C.I.D. (1992)
- The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1993)
- Staggered (1994)
- Chandler & Co (1995)
- September (1996)
- Taggart (1998)
- A Certain Justice (1998)
- Midsomer Murders (1999)
- Doctors (2001)
- The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
- The Forsyte Saga (2002)
- Bad Girls (2002)
- Prime Suspect VI: The Last Witness (2003)
- Foyle's War (2003)
- The Bill (2003–2005)
- Casualty (2005)
- H. G. Wells: War with the World (2006)
- Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills & Boon (2008)
- Holby City (2008–2010){{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8404292/Fiction-in-Brief.html|title=Fiction in Brief|last=Cummins|first=Anthony|publisher=The Telegraph|work=telegraph.co.uk|date=28 March 2011|accessdate=29 January 2012}}
- Undeniable (2014)
- Call the Midwife episode 5 Series 6 (2017){{Cite web |title=BBC One - Call the Midwife, Series 6, Episode 5 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gj5cv |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{citation | last=Winman | first=Sarah | year=2011 | title=When God Was a Rabbit | publisher=Headline Review | isbn=978-0-7553-7928-6 }}
- {{citation | last=Winman | first=Sarah | year=2015 | title=A Year of Marvellous Ways | publisher=Headline Review | isbn=978-0-7553-9094-6 }}
- {{citation | last=Winman | first=Sarah | year=2017 | title=Tin Man | publisher=Tinder Press | isbn=978-0-7553-9095-3 }}
- Winman, Sarah (2021), Still Life, Fourth Estate, {{ISBN|978-0-0082-8336-0}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0935304|name=Sarah Winman}}
- [http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/writers/sarah-winman Biography of Sarah Winman]
- [http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/leisure_and_libraries/culture/arts/book_and_media_festival/book_and_media_events/interview_with_sarah_winman.aspx Interview with Sarah Winman]
- [https://www.headline.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=SBm4uFosNVi7celd9fyzQGQfqxqftm2zY/1c0w7uOjtmtenG2IHihOymOw__ Profile at Headline Review]
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