Adelle Stripe Explained

Adelle Stripe
Birth Place:York, North Yorkshire, England
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:University of GreenwichUniversity of Manchester

Adelle Stripe (born 1976)[1] is an English writer and journalist.

Work

Stripe's writing is rooted in the non-fiction novel form and explores working-class culture, untold histories of Northern England, popular music, and small-town life.

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, her debut novel, was based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.[2] A stage adaptation by Freedom Studios and screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth toured across Yorkshire in 2019.[3]

Ten Thousand Apologies is her collaborative biography of cult UK band Fat White Family that traces the group's origins from working-class Huddersfield to Algeria, via sectarian Northern Ireland and the squats of south London.

In 2006, alongside Tony O'Neill and Ben Myers she formed possibly the first literary movement spawned via a social networking site, the Brutalists.[4] She published three chapbook collections of poetry with Blackheath Books, including Dark Corners of Land.[5] The Humber Star, her poem based on the experiences of her ancestors in 19th century Hessle Road, was performed at John Grant's North Atlantic Flux, for Hull UK City of Culture 2017.[6]

As a journalist, Stripe has written features on theatre, film, literature and music for The Quietus, Yorkshire Post and New Statesman.

Her spoken word has appeared on recordings by Smagghe & Cross and the Eccentronic Research Council.[7]

Reception

In 2017, writing in The Spectator, Andy Miller noted that Stripe's portrayal of Andrea Dunbar in Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile ‘mixes fiction and biography in a manner that brings to mind the work of the late Gordon Burn. [...] The author's voice and Dunbar's mingle to create not just a portrait of an artist — funny, mischievous, reckless and truthful — but also divisions of class, geography and opportunity which continue to shape this country.’ [8]

Wendy Erskine, who reviewed Ten Thousand Apologies in the Irish Times, commented that Stripe ‘is a master at giving real-life novelistic momentum and shape without anything seeming forced or schematic, and she brings sharp perspicacity to every scene.’[9] Writing in the Observer, Miranda Sawyer described her account of Fat White Family as a 'bleak, funny and compelling biography.[…] Stripe is known for her imaginative novel/biography of Andrea Dunbar, and this book, too, though it reads pretty close to the truth, emphasises that “fact has been used to create fiction” and that people remember events differently. The difference here is Stripe is writing with, as well as about, her subject.' [10]

Honours

Stripe was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature and the Gordon Burn Prize for her novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile.[11] [12] Ten Thousand Apologies was nominated for the Penderyn Music Book Prize in 2023.[13]

Her PhD thesis on Andrea Dunbar, non-fiction novels and contemporary northern literature was awarded by the University of Huddersfield.[14]

She is an Anthony Burgess Fellow at Manchester University's Centre for New Writing.[15]

Personal life

Stripe grew up in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and attended Tadcaster Grammar School. She lives in Calderdale and is married to the author Ben Myers.[16]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Fiction

Short stories

Drama

Poetry

Essays & Journalism

Edited works, introductions and forewords

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bloomsbury - Adelle Stripe - Adelle Stripe. Bloomsbury.com. www.bloomsbury.com. en. 2019-12-15.
  2. Web site: ANDREA DUNBAR-INSPIRED NOVEL TO FLEET . 2017-09-10. bookseller.com. en-US.
  3. News: Wiegand. Chris. 2018-12-10. Andrea Dunbar's life story to be staged in Bradford pub. en-GB. The Guardian. 2019-01-07. 0261-3077.
  4. News: Masters . Tim . 2010-10-07 . Does poetry need a special day? . en-GB . 2019-09-06.
  5. Book: Stripe, Adelle . Dark corners of the land . 2013 . Geraint Hughes, Lisa Cradduck . 978-1-906099-29-9 . Hardback . Pembrokeshire [Wales] . 908194991.
  6. Web site: 2017-04-18 . 'I'm drawn to strong women' . 2019-09-06 . Morning Star.
  7. Web site: The Quietus News Eccentronic Research Council Detail 'Dreamcatcher Tapes' Sequel . 2023-03-14 . The Quietus . en-us.
  8. Web site: Miller . Andy . 2017-12-07 . From Bradford to Belgravia . 2023-03-14 . The Spectator . en-US.
  9. News: Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Band and the Miracle of Failure . 2023-03-14 . The Irish Times . en.
  10. News: Sawyer . Miranda . 2022-02-15 . Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure review – band on the brink . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-03-14 . 0261-3077.
  11. News: Sethi . Anita . 2020-01-12 . Northern writers on why a north-specific prize is more important than ever . en-GB . The Observer . 2023-03-14 . 0029-7712.
  12. Web site: Fraine . Laura . 2017-07-21 . Gordon Burn Prize 2017 – shortlist announced . 2023-03-14 . New Writing North . en.
  13. Web site: 2023 . 2023-03-14 . Penderyn Music Book Prize . en.
  14. Writing Andrea Dunbar: framing the non-fiction novel in the literary north . University of Huddersfield . December 2016 . doctoral . en . Adelle . Stripe.
  15. Web site: CNW welcomes new Burgess Fellows . 2023-03-14 . CNW welcomes new Burgess Fellows . en.
  16. Web site: Charlesworth . Antonia . 30 May 2022 . Radical and gently revolutionary . Big Issue North.
  17. Book: Stripe, Adelle . Base Notes: The Scents of a Life . . 978-1399608602 . First . London, UK.
  18. Web site: 8 March 2024 . White Rabbit signs Adelle Stripe memoir . 9 March 2024 . BookBrunch.
  19. Web site: Stay Alive Till '75 . 2021-06-13 . Alimentation . en-GB.
  20. Web site: AMBIT POP 243 . AMBIT.
  21. Web site: Stripe . Adelle . 2018-11-24 . Eight Days Left . 2023-03-14 . The Manchester Review.
  22. Book: Stripe, Adelle . Dark Corners of the Land . Blackheath Books . 2012 . 9781906099299.
  23. Web site: I Am Weekender (Limited Edition Blu-ray) . 2023-06-25 . shop.bfi.org.uk . en.
  24. Web site: New Postscripts . 2023-03-14 . canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk . en-GB.
  25. Web site: Akiko Yosano — Sweet is the Taste of Tears, with Adelle Stripe.. 2021-06-13. www.thetangerinepress.com.

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