Sheila Llewellyn (born 1948 or 1949) is a writer from Northern Ireland.[1][2]
Her first novel, Walking Wounded (2018), was based on events in Burma in the Second World War when a decision was made to kill some seriously injured soldiers who could not be evacuated, rather than leave them to possible torture by the approaching Japanese army.[1] The Guardian's reviewer called it a "quietly self-assured first novel" and "a beautifully turned piece of work", which bore comparison to Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.[3]
Her second novel, Winter in Tabriz (2021), set in Iran in 1979, won the inaugural Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize, for a novel focusing on travel, in 2022.[4][5] Philip Hensher chose it as one of his "Books of the Year" in The Spectator, describing it as "a revelation – long considered and slowly overwhelming with its sense of time and place".[6]
Selected publications
edit- Walking Wounded (2108, Sceptre: ISBN 978-1473663107)
- Winter in Tabriz (2021, Sceptre: ISBN 978-1473663145)
References
edit- ^ a b White, Laurence (2 January 2018). "Incredible real-life story behind Sheila Llewellyn's brilliant first novel". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ Toner, Aine (7 August 2021). "Living and working in pre-revolutionary Iran, plus an interest in dissident writers, led to author Sheila Llewellyn's second historical fiction". Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ Lowry, Elizabeth (1 February 2018). "Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn review – beautiful and humane debut". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "Sheila Llewellyn wins Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize". Arts Council NI. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize: Past winners". Society of Authors. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "Books of the Year I — chosen by our regular reviewers". The Spectator. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
