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Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge.

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Biography

Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her father was the academic Norman Geras and her mother is the author Adèle Geras. She attended Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury and the University of Manchester.

Publications

Hannah published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door, at the age of 24. Her style is often compared to the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. Her poems' subjects tend toward the personal, utilizing classic rhyme schemes with understated wit, humour, and warmth. She has published five previous collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. In 2004, she was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE (including "Rubbish at Adultery" and "Your Dad Did What?"), A-level, and degree level across the UK.[1]

While Hannah has written a book for children, she is better known for her psychological crime novels. Her first novel, Little Face, was published in 2006 and has sold more than 100,000 copies.[2] Her fifth crime novel, Lasting Damage, was published in the UK on 17 February 2011.[3] Kind of Cruel, her seventh psychological thriller to feature the characters Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer, was published in 2012.

Her 2008 novel, The Point of Rescue, was produced for TV as the two-part drama Case Sensitive[4] and shown on 2 and 3 May 2011 on the UK's ITV network. It stars Olivia Williams in the lead role of DS Charlie Zailer and Darren Boyd as DC Simon Waterhouse. Its first showing had 5.4 million viewers.[5] A second two-part story based on The Other Half Lives was shown on 12 and 13 July 2012.

In addition to works entirely of her own devising, Hannah has written a series of novels based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.[6] Hannah has referred to such works as "continuation novels," a subgenre of the crime novel. She has elaborated on the subgenre while reviewing examples by Ngaio Marsh/Stella Duffy and Dorothy L. Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh.[7]

Hannah has translated three children's picture books from Swedish as well as writing a work of social psychology entitled How to Hold a Grudge: from resentment to contentment: the power of grudges to transform your life.[8]

Other professional activities

Hannah participated in the creation of a master's degree in Crime and Thriller Writing at the University of Cambridge, for which she is the main teacher and course director.[9]

Works

For young children

• Carrot the Goldfish, illustrated by Jean Baylis (Hamish Hamilton, 1992)
• The Box Room: poems for children (Orchard Books, 2001)

Translations[10]

The Swedish-language Moomin picture books were written and illustrated by Tove Jansson.

• The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My [1952] (Sort of Books, 2001) – new verse translation
• Who Will Comfort Toffle? [1960] (Sort of, 2003) – new verse translation
• The Dangerous Journey [1977] (Sort of, 2010) – "new verse translation of the third rhyming tale from Moomin Valley"

Poetry

• Early Bird Blues (1993) – limited edition pamphlet
• Second Helping of Your Heart (1994) – limited edition pamphlet
• The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Carcanet Press,1995)
• Hotels Like Houses, (Carcanet, 1996)
• Leaving and Leaving You, (Carcanet, 1999)
• Love Me Slender: Poems About Love (2000)
• First of the Last Chances, (Carcanet, 2003)
• Selected Poems, 2006
• Pessimism for Beginners, (Carcanet, 2007)
• Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems, (Carcanet, 2015)
• Postcard from a Travel Snob

Fiction

• Gripless (1999)
• Cordial and Corrosive: An Unfairy Tale (2000)
• The Superpower of Love (2002)

The Waterhouse and Zailer series

1. Little Face (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
2. Hurting Distance (Hodder, 2007); also published as The Truth-Teller's Lie (2010)
3. The Point of Rescue (Hodder, 2008); also as The Wrong Mother (2009) (adapted for the TV Series Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd)
4. The Other Half Lives (Hodder, 2009) also as The Dead Lie Down (2009) (adapted for the TV Series Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd)
5. A Room Swept White (Hodder, 2010) also as The Cradle in the Grave (2011)[11]
6. Lasting Damage (Hodder, 2011) also as The Other Woman's House (2012)
7. Kind of Cruel (Hodder, 2012)
8. The Carrier (Hodder, 2013)
9. The Telling Error (Hodder, 2014) also as Woman with a Secret (2015)
10. Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen (Hodder, 2015) also as The Warning: A Short Story (2015)
11. The Narrow Bed (Hodder, 2016) also as The Next to Die (2019)
12. The Couple at the Table (Hodder, 2022)

Hercule Poirot

• The Monogram Murders (2014)
• Closed Casket (2016)
• The Mystery of Three Quarters (2018)
• The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020)

Short story collections

• The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets (2008)
• Something Untoward: Six Tales of Domestic Terror (2012)
• The Visitors Book (2015)

Novels

• The Orphan Choir (Hammer, 2013)
• A Game for All the Family (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015)
• Did You See Melody? (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017) also as Keep Her Safe (2017)
• Haven't They Grown (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) also known as Perfect Little Children (2019)

Non-fiction

• How to Hold a Grudge (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018)
• Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It (Wellcome Collection, 2020)

References

External links

• Official website
• Sophie Hannah at British Council: Literature
• Radio interview^{[permanent dead link]} (2009)
• crimezone.nl; Sophie Hannah at Crimezone (hebban.nl)
• Sophie Hannah at Library of Congress Authorities, with 22 catalogue records
• Archival material at Leeds University Library

На других языках

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- [en] Sophie Hannah

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[fr] Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah, née le 28 juin 1971 à Manchester (Angleterre), est une auteure britannique de recueils de poésie et de romans policiers, spécialisée dans les thrillers psychologiques. Son style est souvent comparé à celui surréaliste de Lewis Carroll[1].

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[ru] Ханна, Софи

Софи Ханна (англ. Sophie Hannah; род. 28 июня 1971) — британская поэтесса и романистка, автор детективной литературы. С романом «Эркюль Пуаро и Убийства под монограммой» (2014) официально, с разрешения Agatha Christie Limited, продолжает серию романов об Эркюле Пуаро, персонаже детективных произведений Агаты Кристи.

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