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⚫ '''Gail Honeyman''' (born 1972<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/gail-honeyman/|title=Gail Honeyman|date=7 April 2019|website=Book Series in Order|access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref>) is a Scottish writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/scots-author-wins-prize-for-completely-fantastic-first-book-1-4652126|title=Scots author wins prize for ‘completely fantastic’ first book|website=The Scotsman|language=en|access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref> whose ], '']'', won the 2017 ].<ref name=Costa>{{cite web|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|title=Costa First Novel Award Winner 2017|publisher=]|format=pdf|access-date=3 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103073040/https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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⚫ '''Gail Honeyman''' (born 1972<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/gail-honeyman/|title=Gail Honeyman|date=7 April 2019|website=Book Series in Order|access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref>) is a Scottish writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/scots-author-wins-prize-for-completely-fantastic-first-book-1-4652126|title=Scots author wins prize for 'completely fantastic' first book|website=The Scotsman|language=en|access-date=2019-05-30}}</ref> whose ], '']'', won the 2017 ].<ref name="Costa">{{cite web|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|title=Costa First Novel Award Winner 2017|publisher=]|access-date=3 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103073040/https://www.costa.co.uk/media/487568/2017-awards.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>


== Biography == == Biography ==
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She studied French language and literature at the ] before continuing her education at the ] with a postgraduate course in ]. However, she decided that an academic career was not for her and started a string of "backroom jobs", first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at the University of Glasgow.<ref name=GuardianGail>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/12/gail-honeyman-didnt-want-eleanor-oliphant-portrayed-as-victim|author-last=Armitstaid|author-first=Claire|title=Gail Honeyman: 'I didn't want Eleanor Oliphant to be portrayed as a victim'|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 January 2018|access-date=3 July 2018}}</ref> She studied French language and literature at the ] before continuing her education at the ] with a postgraduate course in ]. However, she decided that an academic career was not for her and started a string of "backroom jobs", first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at the University of Glasgow.<ref name=GuardianGail>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/12/gail-honeyman-didnt-want-eleanor-oliphant-portrayed-as-victim|author-last=Armitstaid|author-first=Claire|title=Gail Honeyman: 'I didn't want Eleanor Oliphant to be portrayed as a victim'|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 January 2018|access-date=3 July 2018}}</ref>


While working as an administrator, Honeyman enrolled in a ] writing course,<ref name="Guardian" /> submitting the first three chapters of what would become ''Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine'' to a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers, run by Cambridge's ].<ref name="GuardianGail" /> The novel, published in 2017, went on to earn numerous awards and wide critical acclaim.<ref name=Costa /> While working as an administrator, Honeyman enrolled in a ] writing course,<ref name="Guardian" /> submitting the first three chapters of what would become ''Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine'' to a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers, run by ].<ref name="GuardianGail" /> The novel, published in 2017, went on to earn numerous awards and wide critical acclaim.<ref name=Costa />


== Books == == Books ==
'']'' won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award, and since then Honeyman has been interviewed often, including by '']'', '']'' and ]. Of her relationship with the book's titular character she told ''The Daily Telegraph'': "Eleanor Oliphant isn't me, or anyone I know of course I've felt loneliness – everybody does".<ref name="woods">{{cite news |last1=Woods |first1=Judith |title=Gail Honeyman: 'I hope Eleanor Oliphant has helped to fuel the debate on loneliness' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/gail-honeyman-hope-eleanor-oliphant-has-helped-fuel-debate-loneliness/ |accessdate=10 August 2018 |work=] |date=15 May 2018}}</ref> '']'' won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award, and since then Honeyman has been interviewed often, including by '']'', '']'' and ]. Of her relationship with the book's titular character she told ''The Daily Telegraph'': "Eleanor Oliphant isn't me, or anyone I know of course I've felt loneliness – everybody does".<ref name="woods">{{cite news |last1=Woods |first1=Judith |title=Gail Honeyman: 'I hope Eleanor Oliphant has helped to fuel the debate on loneliness' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/gail-honeyman-hope-eleanor-oliphant-has-helped-fuel-debate-loneliness/ |accessdate=10 August 2018 |work=] |date=15 May 2018}}</ref>


In January 2018, Honeyman said she was working on a new novel, "set in a different period and location."<ref name="GuardianGail" /> A book with the acting title ''Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2'' (Harper Collins, {{ISBN|9780008172169}}) has been listed with publication date 12 September 2024<ref>{{cite web |title=Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 |url=https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gail-honeyman-untitled-book-2-gail-honeyman/3401106?ean=9780008172169 |website=Bookshop.org |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref> or 27 February 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gail-Honeyman-Untitled-Book-2/dp/0008172161 |publisher=Amazon.com |access-date=6 August 2023 }}</ref> In January 2018, Honeyman said she was working on a new novel, "set in a different period and location."<ref name="GuardianGail" /> A book with the acting title ''Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2'' (Harper Collins, {{ISBN|9780008172169}}) has been listed with publication date 12 September 2024<ref>{{cite web |title=Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 |url=https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gail-honeyman-untitled-book-2-gail-honeyman/3401106?ean=9780008172169 |website=Bookshop.org |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref> or 27 February 2025.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 |id={{ASIN|0008172161|country=uk}} }}</ref>

==Awards==
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==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==


* {{Cite book |last=H |title=Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine |publisher=] |year=2017 |isbn=9780008172114 |language=en |author-mask=2}} * {{Cite book |last=H |title=Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine |title-link=Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine |publisher=] |year=2017 |isbn=9780008172114 |language=en |author-mask=2}}


* {{Cite book |last=H |title=Untitled Book 2 |publisher=] |year=2024 |isbn=9780008172169 |language=en |author-mask=2}} * {{Cite book |last=H |title=Untitled Book 2 |publisher=] |year=2025 |isbn=9780008172169 |language=en |author-mask=2}} Forthcoming.


==References== ==References==

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Scottish novelist

Gail Honeyman
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Stirling, Scotland
OccupationWriter, novelist, university administrator
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
University of Oxford
Notable worksEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
Notable awardsCosta Book Award–First Novel (2017)

Gail Honeyman (born 1972) is a Scottish writer whose debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award.

Biography

Born and raised in Stirling in central Scotland to a mother who worked as a civil servant and a father in science, Honeyman was a voracious reader in her childhood, visiting the library "a ridiculous number of times a week".

She studied French language and literature at the University of Glasgow before continuing her education at the University of Oxford with a postgraduate course in French poetry. However, she decided that an academic career was not for her and started a string of "backroom jobs", first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at the University of Glasgow.

While working as an administrator, Honeyman enrolled in a Faber Academy writing course, submitting the first three chapters of what would become Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine to a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers, run by Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. The novel, published in 2017, went on to earn numerous awards and wide critical acclaim.

Books

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award, and since then Honeyman has been interviewed often, including by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Waterstones. Of her relationship with the book's titular character she told The Daily Telegraph: "Eleanor Oliphant isn't me, or anyone I know of course I've felt loneliness – everybody does".

In January 2018, Honeyman said she was working on a new novel, "set in a different period and location." A book with the acting title Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 (Harper Collins, ISBN 9780008172169) has been listed with publication date 12 September 2024 or 27 February 2025.

Awards

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Year Work Award Category Result Ref
2017 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Popular Fiction Shortlisted
Costa Book Awards First Novel Won
Waverton Good Read Award — Won
2018 Audie Award Fiction Finalist
Australian Book Industry Awards International Book Shortlisted
Authors' Club First Novel Award — Won
Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Readers' Choice Won
British Book Award Début Book of the Year Won
The British Book Industry Awards Overall Won
Début Book of the Year Won
Desmond Elliott Prize — Shortlisted
Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award — Shortlisted
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize — Shortlisted
RUSA CODES Reading List Women's Fiction Shortlisted
2019 Comedy Women in Print Prize Published Comedy Novel Shortlisted
International Dublin Literary Award — Longlisted

Bibliography

References

  1. "Gail Honeyman". Book Series in Order. 7 April 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. "Scots author wins prize for 'completely fantastic' first book". The Scotsman. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Costa First Novel Award Winner 2017" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Scottish author Gail Honeyman: Turning 40 focused my mind..." Belfast Telegraph. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Meet the New Faces of Fiction for 2017". The Guardian. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  6. ^ Armitstaid, Claire (12 January 2018). "Gail Honeyman: 'I didn't want Eleanor Oliphant to be portrayed as a victim'". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  7. Woods, Judith (15 May 2018). "Gail Honeyman: 'I hope Eleanor Oliphant has helped to fuel the debate on loneliness'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. "Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2". Bookshop.org. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  9. Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2. ASIN 0008172161.

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