Stella Duffy
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| Born | Stella Frances Duffy 1963 Woolwich, London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist, performer |
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Stella Frances Silas Duffy OBE (born 1963) is a writer and theatremaker. Born in London, she spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK.
Born to a New Zealand father and an English mother, Duffy is the youngest in a family of seven children. The family moved to New Zealand when Duffy was five, and Duffy later returned to London. She studied English Literature and Drama at Victoria University of Wellington. Duffy is a practising Buddhist and lives in Lambeth with her wife, playwright Shelley Silas.
She is the founder and Co-Director of the Fun Palaces Campaign: http://funpalaces.co.uk/
She has written fourteen novels – nine literary novels published by Virago and Sceptre and five crime novels in the Saz Martin series, published by Serpent's Tail. She has also written fifty short stories, ten plays, and many feature articles and reviews. With Lauren Henderson she co-edited the fiction anthology Tart Noir (2002). Her own short story in that collection, Martha Grace, was awarded the 2002 Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Short Story Dagger.Singling out the Couples was shortlisted for the 1999 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award. State of Happiness was longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize, as was The Room of Lost Things in 2008. She adapted the film script of State of Happiness for Fiesta Productions. The first novel in her Saz Martin series, Calendar Girl, was voted fifth equal in the 2007 international poll The Big Gay Read. She won Stonewall Writer of the Year 2008 for The Room of Lost Things and in 2010 for Theodora, Actress, Empress, Whore.
She has written ten plays, including The Book of Ruth (and Naomi) for the Bush Theatre's inaugural Sixty Six Books set of plays, an adaptation of Medea (Steam Industry at The Scoop 2009, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh 2011), Prime Resident (NYT, Soho Theatre 2007), Immaculate Conceit (NYT, Lyric Hammesmith 2003) The Hand (Gay Sweatshop 1996), her solo shows Breaststrokes (BAC 2004) and The Tedious Predictability of Falling In Love (The Oval 1990)
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