Shelley Silas

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Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.

Career

In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.

Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award,^[1] creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;,^[2] adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey).

She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.

Stage Plays

Shrapnel (1999)
Falling (2002)
Calcutta Kosher (2004)
Mercy Fine (2005)
Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (2008)

Radio Plays

The Sound of Silence (2002)
The Magpie Stories (2002)
Collective Fascination (2005)
Ink (2005)
Nothing Happened (2005, co-written with Luke Sorba)
Molly's Story (2007)
I Am Emma Humphreys (2009)

Current Radio Commissions (2010)

The People Next Door
Mr Jones Goes Driving

Radio Adaptations

Calcutta Kosher (2002)
Only in London (2005)
The Raj Quartet (2005)

TV

The Barkers Treatment commission, Monkey Kingdom

References

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