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Margaret Drabble

Novelist / Screenwriter / Writer / Playwright | * 06/05/1939 (84) | Sheffield (United Kingdom (UK))
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Sheffield, Hull, Manchester,) and plateglass universities (such as Bradford, Keele, East Anglia and York). She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1973. Drabble also wrote biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson and edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature and a book on Thomas Hardy. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama

Awards & Nominations for Margaret Drabble

Dame Commander of The Order of The British Empire James Tait Black Memorial Prize John Llewellyn Rhys Prize E. M. Forster Award St. Louis Literary Award Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature

Movies with Margaret Drabble as Actress(1)

as Narrator1969 I Love This Dirty Town

Movies with Margaret Drabble as Crew(2)

Writing/Screenplay1969 A Touch of Love
Writing/Novel1969 A Touch of Love

Full Name: Margaret Drabble
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Monday, 06/05 1939 (June) in Sheffield (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 84 years + 297 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Newnham College, Sheffield High School for Girls
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Literature
Spouses (current/former): Clive Swift, Michael Holroyd
Children: Adam Swift, Joe Swift
Siblings: A. S. Byatt, Helen Langdon, Richard Drabble
Father: John Drabble
Other names for Margaret Drabble (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Margaret Swift"
Margaret Drabble frequently works together with these people:
Ian McKellen (1x, Actor)
John Standing (1x, Actor)
Peggy Thorpe-Bates (1x, Actress)
Arthur Dooley (1x, Cast)
Ron Parks (1x, Crew)
Rachel Kempson (1x, Actress)
Mitzi Cunliffe (1x, Cast)
Sarah Whalley (1x, Cast)
Merfyn Turner (1x, Cast)
Ariel Levy (1x, Crew)
Tony Curtis (1x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:939649, Added: 11/20/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024