Louise Page

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Biography

Playwright, novelist and journalist Louise Page was born in London, in 1955. She was educated at the University of Birmingham, where she studied Drama and Theatre Arts. In 1979 she became Yorkshire Television's Fellow in Drama and Television at the University of Sheffield. She was awarded the George Devine Award for her play Salonika, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London in 1982, and was appointed Resident Writer at the Royal Court Theatre (1982-3). She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edge Hill University from 2004-2006.

She writes for both television and radio and worked for ten years on BBC Radio 4's long-running radio serial The Archers. She now runs Words4work with her husband, the writer Christopher Hawes, organising seminars and workshops to help businesses improve the standard of their written English.

Her latest plays are Another Nine Months and The Statue of Liberty.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Drama

Bibliography

Plays by Women Volume 1   (includes 'Tissue' by Louise Page)   Methuen, 1982

Salonika   Methuen, 1983

Golden Girls   Methuen, 1985

Real Estate   Methuen, 1985

Beauty and the Beast   Methuen in association with the Women's Playhouse Trust, 1986

Diplomatic Wives   Methuen, 1989

They Said You Were Too Young   (includes 'Lily and Colin' by Louis Page)   Hodder & Stoughton, 1989

Plays One   (Contents: Tissue; Salonika; Real Estate; Golden Girls)   Methuen, 1990

Read about books by Louise Page at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by Louise Page at Amazon.co.uk

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Prizes and awards

1982   George Devine Award   Salonika

1985   J. T. Grein Prize from the Drama Critics Circle

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Author statement

'I write because I love words. And I use the structuring and organising of words to try and make sense of the chaos around me. I write for the theatre because I love the theatre. I love its vitality, the way in which a good piece of theatre communicates through a transference of mental and physical energy and sends one out of the theatre dancing. It doesn't happen often. But I know it does and so I write plays to try and make it happen, so that when we've made sense of the world we can celebrate.'

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Methuen Publishing Ltd 8 Artillery Row London  SW1P 1RZ England Tel: +44 (0)20 7802 0018 Fax: +44 (0)20 7828 1244 E-mail: info@methuen.co.uk http://www.methuen.co.uk

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