Old Filth

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Gardam’s first book, Black Faces, White Faces (1975), a collection of short stories, won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Subsequent collections of short stories include The Pangs of Love and Other Stories, winner of the Katherine Mansfield Award, and Going into a Dark House, which was awarded the PEN Macmillan Silver Pen Award in 1995. Gardam’s first novel, God on the Rocks was adapted for television in 1992. It won the Prix Baudelaire (France) in 1989 and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. She is the only author to have twice been awarded the Whitbread Prize for the Best Novel of the Year (for the Queen of the Tambourine, in 1991, and for The Hollow Land, 1981). She is also the author of The Flight of the Maiden, which was adapted for BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour. In 1999, Jane Gardam was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career. She lives with her husband in England.