Mary Beckett
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| Mary Beckett | |
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| Born | 1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died | 2013 Dublin, Ireland[1] |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | St. Mary's Training College[2] |
| Notable works | Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman[2] |
| Notable awards | 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature |
| Children | 5 |
Mary Beckett (1926–2013)[2] was an Irish author.
She was born in Belfast.[3] In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published.[4] She worked as a teacher, married and had five children. She was not published again until 1980's A Belfast Woman.[5]
Her non-fiction includes the short story collections A Belfast Woman (1980) and A Literary Woman (1990). She wrote one novel, Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six, Orla at School, A Family Tree, and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons.
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