Shelley Silas
Shelley Silas is a playwright.
She was born in Calcutta, India.
In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.
Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award,[1] creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;,[2] adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey).
She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.
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- ↑ "List of 2003 Imison Award finalists"
- ↑ "Magpie Stories" transmission listings.