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Sara Maitland


Scotland (b.1950)

Sara Maitland is a British writer and academic. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency. Maitland is regarded as one of those at the vanguard of the 1970s feminist movement, and is often described as a feminist writer. She is a Roman Catholic, and religion is another theme in much of her work.
 

Awards: SoA (1979)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Daughter of Jerusalem (1978)
     aka The Languages of Love
   Weddings And Funerals (1984) (with Aileen la Tourette)
   Virgin Territory (1984)
   Arky Types (1987) (with Michelene Wandor)
   Three Times Table (1990)
   Home Truths (1993)
     aka Ancestral Truths
   Brittle Joys (1999)
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Collections
   Telling Tales (1983)
   A Book of Spells (1987)
   Women Fly When Men Aren't Watching (1993)
   Angel and Me (1995)
   Angel Maker (1996)
   On Becoming a Fairy Godmother (2003)
   Bound (2004) (with others)
   Far North and Other Dark Tales (2008)
   Moss Witch (2013)
   True North (2024)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Sara Maitland
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Arboreal (2016)
A Collection of Words from the Woods
edited by
Adrian Cooper
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Love Alters (2013)
Lesbian Stories
edited by
Emma Donoghue
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Bio-Punk (2012)
Stories from the Far Side of Research
(Science-Into-Fiction)
edited by
Ra Page

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Awards
1979 Somerset Maugham Award : Daughter of Jerusalem

Award nominations
2009 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Moss Witch


Sara Maitland recommends
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Virgin & Child (2020)
Maggie Hamand
"Strangely touching written with great elegance authority."
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The Monster's Wife (2014)
Kate Horsley
"Profoundly touching and weirdly macabre at the same time. Wonderful."
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The Diviners (1974)
(Manawka)
Margaret Laurence
"It's hard to think of a contemporary novel more moving and more triumphant than THE DIVINERS."

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