2017.10.15 简-加德姆 作家

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Jane Gardam is best known for her trilogy of novels about an ex-colonial QC nicknamed Old Filth. A writer for both adults and children, she has won two Whitbread awards, the Katherine Mansfield Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Born in 1928, she grew up in North Yorkshire where her father was a schoolmaster at a small independent boys' school. Her mother wrote sermons and was an inveterate letter-writer. After graduating, Jane had a number of literary jobs, but gave up working to raise her three young children. Although she wrote poems as a young girl, her writing career didn't begin in earnest until the day her youngest child started school when she began to write her first book.

Since then, she has published more than 30 books, including novels for children and adults as well as short stories and a non-fiction volume about the Yorkshire of her youth.



简-加德姆以她的小说三部曲而闻名，这些小说讲述了一个绰号为 "老污点 "的前殖民地御用律师的故事。作为成人和儿童作家，她赢得了两个惠特布雷德奖和凯瑟琳-曼斯菲尔德奖，并入围布克奖和奥兰治小说奖的候选名单。

她出生于1928年，在北约克郡长大，她的父亲是一所小型独立男校的校长。她的母亲写布道，是个不折不扣的写信人。毕业后，简有过一些文学工作，但为了抚养三个年幼的孩子而放弃了工作。虽然她年轻时写过诗，但她的写作生涯直到她最小的孩子开始上学那天才真正开始，当时她开始写她的第一本书。

从那时起，她已经出版了30多本书，包括儿童和成人的小说，以及短篇小说和一本关于她年轻时的约克夏的非小说集。