Death of Dame Beryl Bainbridge - Award-winning novelist dies after short illness

Published: 02 July 2010
by TOM FOOT

ONE of Britain's most celebrated writers, the novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge, has died aged 75.

She passed away in the early hours of Friday morning at her home in Albert Street, Camden Town, after a short illness.

Liverpool-born Dame Beryl, who was given her title in 2000, was nominated five times for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread novel award twice.

Her most celebrated works included The Dressmaker, Injury Time and An Awfully Big Adventure, which was made into a film starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.

She specialised in black comedy, and also wrote columns for the Spectator and the Evening Standard.

• A full report and obituary will appear in the next edition of the Camden New Journal.