Stella Duffy recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours

Published June 13, 2016 by Katherine Cowdrey - The Bookseller

 

London-born writer and theatre-maker Stella Duffy and colouring-book author Johanna Basford have received OBEs and Peter Straus, managing director at Rogers, Coleridge and White, has been honoured with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. ​

Duffy, who was raised in New Zealand before returning to the UK, is the author of 14 novels, including The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness, which were both longlisted for the Orange Prize, as well as over 50 short stories and 10 plays. Her latest novel, London Lies Beneath, is due to be published with Virago in November 2016.   MORE