Sara Maitland

 

Sara Maitland was born in 1950. Her first novel Daughter of Jerusalem won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1979. Since then she has written five more novels and has published five collections of short stories, including On Becoming a Fairy Godmother (Maia Press 2003). In March 2008 Maia press published Far North and other dark tales to celebrate the launch of the film “Far North”, directed by Asif Kapadia and starring Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean, based on that dark tale.

 

In 2004 she moved to Galloway and has built herself a house on the moors above New Luce. In November 2008 Granta published A Book of Silence, which is partly a cultural history of silence and partly a personal memoir of her search of that elusive lifestyle. She is currently working on a book of short stories to celebrate the visual artist, Chris Gollan’s Stations of Cross for St. John on Bethnal Green, and also beginning to develop a book about forests and fairy stories.

 

You can visit Sara's website at this link.