Occupation Author Name Mary Beckett Language English Role Author | Nationality Irish Awards Bisto Merit Awards Citizenship United Kingdom | |
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Notable works Give Them Stones
A Belfast Woman
A Literary Woman Notable awards 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature Died 2013, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Alma mater St Mary's University College, Belfast Books Belfast Woman, A Literary Woman, A Family Tree, Literary Women | ||
Meet The Magoons
Mary Beckett (1926–2013) was an Irish author.
She was born in Belfast. In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published. She worked as a teacher, married and had five children. She was not published again until 1980's A Belfast Woman.
Her non-fiction includes the short story collections A Belfast Woman (1980) and A Literary Woman (1990). She wrote one novel, Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six, Orla at School, A Family Tree, and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons.
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