Sophie Hannah

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Sophie Hannah is a prolific, award-winning English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She currently resides with her family in West Yorkshire.

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[edit] Biography

Sophie Hannah was born in 1971 in Manchester, England and educated at the University of Manchester. Her father is the academic and author Norman Geras. Her mother is author Adele Geras. She published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door at age 24. Her style is often compared the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. Her poem's subjects tend toward the personal, utilizing classic rhyme schemes with understated wit, humor and warmth.

In 2004, she was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.

[edit] Poetry

  • Early Bird Blues, 1993 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
  • Second Helping of Your Heart, 1994 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
  • The Hero and the Girl Next Door, 1995
  • Hotels Like Houses, 1996
  • Leaving and Leaving You, 1999
  • Love Me Slender: Poems About Love, 2000
  • First of the Last Chances, 2003
  • Selected Poems, 2006

[edit] Children's Books

  • The Box Room, Poems for Children
  • Carrot the Goldfish

[edit] Crime Fiction

  • Little Face
  • Hurting Distance (due 2007)
  • The Point of Rescue (Work in Progress)

[edit] Short Story Collection

  • We All Say What We Want (due 2007)

[edit] Fiction

  • The Superpower of Love, 2002
  • Cordial and Corrosive: an unfairy tale, 2000
  • Gripless, 1999

[edit] Translation

[edit] External links

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