British author Fay Weldon, recognized for novels together with “he Life And Loves Of A She-Devil, has died, her household stated Wednesday. She was 91.
Weldon was a playwright, screenwriter and a prolific novelist, producing 30 novels in addition to quick tales and performs written for tv, radio and the stage. She was one of the writers on the favored Nineteen Seventies drama collection Upstairs, Downstairs, receiving an award from the Writers Guild of America for the present’s first episode.
“It is with nice unhappiness that we announce the demise of Fay Weldon (CBE), author, essayist and playwright. She died peacefully this morning January 4, 2023,” her household stated in an announcement launched by her agent.
Much of Weldon’s fiction explored points surrounding ladies’s relationships with males, kids, dad and mom and one another, together with the 1971 Down Among The Women and Female Friends, printed in 1975.
The Life and Loves Of a She-Devil was the story of an unpleasant girl who alters her physique and her life to hunt revenge on a philandering husband. It was tailored right into a TV collection in addition to a movie starring Meryl Streep.
Her 1978 novel, Praxis, was shortlisted for the celebrated Booker Prize for Fiction.
Born in September 1931, Weldon was introduced up in New Zealand and returned to the U.Okay. as a toddler. She studied economics and psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and labored briefly for the Foreign Office in London and as a journalist earlier than shifting on to work as an promoting copywriter.
She printed her first novel, The Fat Woman’s Joke, in 1967.
Weldon was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her providers to literature in 2001. – AP
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