![]() It won the Prix Baudelaire (France) in 1989 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Jane Gardam's first novel for adults, God on the Rocks (1978), a coming-of-age novel set in the 1930s, was adapted for television in 1992. ![]() ![]() Subsequent collections of short stories include The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983), winner of the Katherine Mansfield Award Going into a Dark House (1994), which was awarded the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1995) and Missing the Midnight: Hauntings & Grotesques (1997). Her first book for adults, Black Faces, White Faces (1975), a collection of linked short stories about Jamaica, won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. In 1951 she worked as a Red Cross Travelling Librarian to Hospital Libraries, afterwards taking up editorial posts at Weldon Ladies Journal (sub-editor, 1952) and the literary weekly Time and Tide (Assistant Editor, 1952-4). She was educated at Saltburn High School for Girls, and won a scholarship to the University of London where she read English at Bedford College. Novelist Jane Gardam was born Jean Mary Pearson in Coatham, North Yorkshire on 11 July 1928. ![]()
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