Biography
Sophie Hannah was born in 1971 in Manchest
er. She was educated at the University of Manchester, where she studied English Literature and Spanish. Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, she currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University's Writing School. She was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 1995 and was a Patron for the Swansea Year of Literature in the same year.
She is the author of several novels, including Gripless (1999), Cordial and Corrosive (2000), The Superpower of Love (2001), the psychological thriller, Little Face (2006) and Hurting Distance (2007). Her latest books are The Point of Rescue (2008) and The Other Half Lives (2009).
She also writes for children and is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hotels Like Houses (1996), which was awarded an Arts Council Writers' Award, and Leaving and Leaving You (1999). In 2008 she edited an anthology of poems for young people, The Ropes: Poems To Hold On To, with John Hegley.
Her collection of poetry Pessimism for Beginners (2007), was shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Sophie Hannah lives in West Yorkshire. In 2004, she was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets.
Bibliography
Carrot the Goldfish Hamish Hamilton, 1992
Early Bird Blues Smith/Doorstop, 1993
Second Helping of Your Heart Crabflower, 1994
The Hero and the Girl Next Door Carcanet, 1995
Hotels Like Houses Carcanet, 1996
Gripless Arrow, 1999
Leaving and Leaving You Carcanet, 1999
Cordial and Corrosive Arrow, 2000
Love Me Slender Duffy & Snellgrove (Australia), 2000
The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My/Tove Jansson (translator) Sort of Books, 2001
The Box Room Orchard Books, 2001
The Superpower of Love Century, 2001
First of the Last Chances Carcanet, 2003
Who Will Comfort Toffle?/Tove Jansson (translator) Sort of Books, 2003
Little Face Hodder & Stoughton, 2006
Hurting Distance Hodder & Stoughton, 2007
Pessimism for Beginners Carcanet, 2007
We All Say What We Want Sort of Books, 2007
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets Sort of Books, 2008
The Point of Rescue Hodder & Stoughton, 2008
The Ropes: Poems To Hold On To (editor with John Hegley) Diamond Twig, 2008
The Other Half Lives Hodder & Stoughton, 2009
Prizes and awards
1995 Eric Gregory Award
1996 Arts Council Writers' Award Hotels Like Houses
2007 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) Pessimism for Beginners
