Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy (born 1963) is a British lesbian novelist and performer.
She was born in Woolwich but spent her childhood in New Zealand[1] and studied English Literature and Drama at Victoria University, Wellington.[2] Duffy is a practising Buddhist and lives in Lambeth with her partner, playwright Shelley Silas.[3][4]
he has written twelve novels – seven literary novels published by Virago and Sceptre and five crime novels featuring the lesbian primate investigator Saz Martin, published by Serpent's Tail – and ten plays.
As a stage performer, she is an associate artist with Improbable, has been a member of the comedy improvisation company Spontaneous Combustion since 1988 and has guested with The Comedy Store Players. She has performed her solo show "Breaststrokes" (Time Out and The Guardian Critic’s Choice) in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin, York, and Amsterdam.
In 2008 she wrote and presented a documentary for the BBC's Time Shift strand called How to write a Mills and Boon[5] where she took on the challenge of writing a Mills and Boon romance novel.
Awards and recognition
Stella Duffy has twice won the Stonewall Writer of the Year Award: in 2008 for The Room of Lost Things and in 2010 for Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore.
She was ranked number 35 in the Pride Power List 2011, 34 in the Pink List 2011 and 41 in the Pink List 2012.
References
Partly based on a Wikipedia article.
- ↑ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth250%7Ctitle= Biography on British Council website
- ↑ http://www.afterellen-q.mtvi.com/people/2008/6/stelladuffy AfterEllen profile: Stella Duffy
- ↑ url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/books/Interview-Stella-Duffy--Saintly.6333613.jp Scotland on Sunday interview, 1 June 2010
- ↑ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23858410-my-teen-boyfriends-were-so-good-at-sex-i-didnt-realise-i-was-a-lesbian.do Evening Standard interview, 24 July 2010
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ff170%7Ctitle= Programme information on BBC web site
