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Susan Hill

English novelist and screenwriter · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84

Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.

Susan Hill is read about 248 times a day, in 18 languages.

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A life in dates

2024Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime AchievementAward2020Dame Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward2012Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward1988Nestlé Children's Book PrizeAward1975Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1972Costa Book AwardsAward1971Somerset Maugham AwardAward1942Born5 February 1942

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Awards

Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement2024
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire2020
Commander of the Order of the British Empire2012
Nestlé Children's Book Prize1988
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1975
Costa Book Awards1972
Somerset Maugham Award1971
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1942 · age 84

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In the same film or series as Susan

Dominique BlancAlso in I'm the King of the Castle (1989)Leanne BestAlso in The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)Douglas HenshallAlso in Susan Hill's Ghost Story (2019)Pauline MoranAlso in The Woman in Black (1989)Tim McMullanAlso in The Woman in Black (2012)