Sheila Llewellyn Explained

Sheila Llewellyn (born) is a writer from Northern Ireland.[1] [2]

Her first novel, Walking Wounded (2018), was based on events in Burma in the Second World War when a decision was made to kill some seriously injured soldiers who could not be evacuated, rather than leave them to possible torture by the approaching Japanese army. The Guardian reviewer called it a "quietly self-assured first novel" and "a beautifully turned piece of work", which bore comparison to Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.[3]

Her second novel, Winter in Tabriz (2021), set in Iran in 1979, won the inaugural Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize, for a novel focusing on travel, in 2022.[4] [5] Philip Hensher chose it as one of his "Books of the Year" in The Spectator, describing it as "a revelation – long considered and slowly overwhelming with its sense of time and place".[6]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. News: White . Laurence . Incredible real-life story behind Sheila Llewellyn's brilliant first novel . 3 July 2023 . BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . 2 January 2018.
  2. News: Toner . Aine . Living and working in pre-revolutionary Iran, plus an interest in dissident writers, led to author Sheila Llewellyn's second historical fiction . 3 July 2023 . 7 August 2021.
  3. News: Lowry . Elizabeth . Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn review – beautiful and humane debut . 3 July 2023 . The Guardian . 1 February 2018.
  4. Web site: Sheila Llewellyn wins Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize . Arts Council NI . 3 July 2023 . en.
  5. Web site: The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize: Past winners . Society of Authors . 3 July 2023 . 12 July 2021.
  6. News: Books of the Year I — chosen by our regular reviewers . 3 July 2023 . The Spectator . 2 November 2022.

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