Nina Stibbe
Nina Stibbe (born 1962) is a British writer born in Willoughby Waterleys and raised in Fleckney, Leicestershire. She became a nanny in the household of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books. Her letters home to her sister became her first book, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, which was adapted into the 2016 BBC television series, Love, Nina.
Life and career
Born in 1962, Nina Stibbe grew up in rural
After leaving the Wilmers household, Stibbe studied Humanities at
In 2014, she published her first semi-autobiographical novel, Man at the Helm.[5] Stibbe had been attempting to write the novel for more than 30 years, having struggled to find her voice.[5]
In 2016, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life was adapted by Nick Hornby for the BBC, as Love, Nina, starring Faye Marsay in the title role and Helena Bonham Carter.[9]
Reasons to be Cheerful won the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize,[10] making Stibbe the fourth woman to win the prize.[11] Man At The Helm had been shortlisted in 2015 and Paradise Lodge had been on the 2017 shortlist.[12] Two rare breed pigs were named Reasons and Cheerful after the novel's title.[12]
In 2020, Stibbe was awarded the Comedy Women in Print Prize for Reasons to be Cheerful, winning £3,000.[11]
Awards
- 2020 - Comedy Women in Print Prize[11][13]
- 2019 - Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize[10]
Bibliography
- Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, London: Penguin, 2013
- Man at the Helm, London: Penguin, 2014
- Paradise Lodge, London: Penguin, 2016
- An Almost Perfect Christmas, London: Penguin 2017
- Reasons to be Cheerful, London: Penguin 2019
- One Day I Shall Astonish the World, London: Penguin 2022
- Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary, London: Pan Macmillan, 2023
References
- ^ a b "Nina Stibbe interview: 'I always thought I'd be a writer, but I had no belief in myself'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Love, Nina: confessions of a north London nanny". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d "How Nina Stibbe found her voice". The Guardian. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Nina Stibbe". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b "About Nina Stibbe | Nina Stibbe". www.ninastibbe.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Nina Stibbe: Interview | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "BBC - Love, Nina - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Nina Stibbe wins 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ a b c Flood, Alison (14 September 2020). "'Men still say women aren't funny': Nina Stibbe wins Comedy women in print prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Wodehouse Prize: Nina Stibbe's Reasons To Be Cheerful wins". BBC News. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Previous Winners". CWIP. Retrieved 28 March 2021.