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== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Born in 1962, Nina grew up in rural [[Leicestershire]], England, in a single-parent family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11711545/Nina-Stibbe-interview-I-always-thought-Id-be-a-writer-but-I-had-no-belief-in-myself.html|title=Nina Stibbe interview: 'I always thought I'd be a writer, but I had no belief in myself'|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10418353/Love-Nina-confessions-of-a-north-London-nanny.html|title=Love, Nina: confessions of a north London nanny|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/nina-stibbe-i-wish-id-made-alan-bennett-funnier-interview|title=Nina Stibbe: ‘I wish I’d made Alan Bennett a bit funnier. But to me he was a middle-aged man’|last=Clark|first=Interview by Alex|date=2015-06-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1982, she left Leicestershire to work as the nanny in the household of [[Mary-Kay Wilmers]] for two years, at 55 [[Gloucester Crescent, Camden|Gloucester Crescent]], London, looking after Mary-Kay's two children with [[Stephen Frears]], Sam and Will.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/10/love-nina-stibbe-review|title=Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe – review|last=Kellaway|first=Kate|date=2013-11-10|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> At the time Gloucester Crescent was the home of a number of notable artistic and literary figures, including [[Alan Bennett]], [[Jonathan Miller]], [[Claire Tomalin]], [[Karel Reisz]] and [[Michael Frayn]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|date=2020-04-21|title=How Nina Stibbe found her voice|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/apr/21/how-nina-stibbe-found-her-voice-reasons-to-be-cheerful-reading-group|access-date=2021-03-31|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> This literary environment was completely new to her. During this time, Nina wrote letters to her sister Victoria, back in Leicestershire, detailing her experiences as a nanny amongst the literary elite.<ref name=":6" /> These letters became the basis for ''Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life,'' which was shortlisted for the [[Waterstones Book of the Year]] Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 [[National Book Awards (United Kingdom)|National Book Awards]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/nina-stibbe/77571/|title=Nina Stibbe|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref>
Born in 1962, Nina grew up in rural [[Leicestershire]], England, in a single-parent family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11711545/Nina-Stibbe-interview-I-always-thought-Id-be-a-writer-but-I-had-no-belief-in-myself.html|title=Nina Stibbe interview: 'I always thought I'd be a writer, but I had no belief in myself'|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10418353/Love-Nina-confessions-of-a-north-London-nanny.html|title=Love, Nina: confessions of a north London nanny|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/nina-stibbe-i-wish-id-made-alan-bennett-funnier-interview|title=Nina Stibbe: ‘I wish I’d made Alan Bennett a bit funnier. But to me he was a middle-aged man’|last=Clark|first=Interview by Alex|date=2015-06-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1982, she left Leicestershire to work as the nanny in the household of [[Mary-Kay Wilmers]] for two years, at 55 [[Gloucester Crescent, Camden|Gloucester Crescent]], London, looking after Mary-Kay's two children with [[Stephen Frears]], Sam and Will.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/10/love-nina-stibbe-review|title=Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe – review|last=Kellaway|first=Kate|date=2013-11-10|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-19|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> At the time Gloucester Crescent was the home of a number of notable artistic and literary figures, including [[Alan Bennett]], [[Jonathan Miller]], [[Claire Tomalin]], [[Karel Reisz]], [[Deborah Moggach]] and [[Michael Frayn]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|date=2020-04-21|title=How Nina Stibbe found her voice|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/apr/21/how-nina-stibbe-found-her-voice-reasons-to-be-cheerful-reading-group|access-date=2021-03-31|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> This literary environment was completely new to her. During this time, Nina wrote letters to her sister Victoria, back in Leicestershire, detailing her experiences as a nanny amongst the literary elite.<ref name=":6" /> These letters became the basis for ''Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life,'' which was shortlisted for the [[Waterstones Book of the Year]] Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 [[National Book Awards (United Kingdom)|National Book Awards]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/nina-stibbe/77571/|title=Nina Stibbe|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref>


After leaving the Wilmers household, Stibbe studied Humanities at [[Thames Polytechnic]]. In 1990 she started work as a marketing assistant at [[Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]], then as a rep for the [[Open University Press]], and finally for [[Routledge]], becoming a commissioning editor.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ninastibbe.com/about|title=About Nina Stibbe {{!}} Nina Stibbe|website=www.ninastibbe.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/profile/nina-stibbe-interview|title=Nina Stibbe: Interview {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref> In 2002 she moved to [[Cornwall]] with her partner, Mark Nunney, whom she met while living on Gloucester Crescent, and their children, Eva and Alfred.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />
After leaving the Wilmers household, Stibbe studied Humanities at [[Thames Polytechnic]]. In 1990 she started work as a marketing assistant at [[Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]], then as a rep for the [[Open University Press]], and finally for [[Routledge]], becoming a commissioning editor.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ninastibbe.com/about|title=About Nina Stibbe {{!}} Nina Stibbe|website=www.ninastibbe.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/profile/nina-stibbe-interview|title=Nina Stibbe: Interview {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref> In 2002 she moved to [[Cornwall]] with her partner, Mark Nunney, whom she met while living on Gloucester Crescent, and their children, Eva and Alfred.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />

Revision as of 23:44, 23 April 2022

Nina Stibbe is a British writer born in Willoughby Waterleys and raised in Fleckney, Leicestershire. She became a nanny in the household of Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books. Her letters home to her sister became her first book, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, which was adapted into the 2016 BBC television series, Love, Nina.

Life and career

Born in 1962, Nina grew up in rural Leicestershire, England, in a single-parent family.[1][2][3] In 1982, she left Leicestershire to work as the nanny in the household of Mary-Kay Wilmers for two years, at 55 Gloucester Crescent, London, looking after Mary-Kay's two children with Stephen Frears, Sam and Will.[4] At the time Gloucester Crescent was the home of a number of notable artistic and literary figures, including Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Claire Tomalin, Karel Reisz, Deborah Moggach and Michael Frayn.[5] This literary environment was completely new to her. During this time, Nina wrote letters to her sister Victoria, back in Leicestershire, detailing her experiences as a nanny amongst the literary elite.[5] These letters became the basis for Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards.[4][6]

After leaving the Wilmers household, Stibbe studied Humanities at Thames Polytechnic. In 1990 she started work as a marketing assistant at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, then as a rep for the Open University Press, and finally for Routledge, becoming a commissioning editor.[7][8] In 2002 she moved to Cornwall with her partner, Mark Nunney, whom she met while living on Gloucester Crescent, and their children, Eva and Alfred.[7][1]

In 2014, she published her first semi-autobiographical novel, Man at the Helm.[5] Stibbe had been attempting to write the novel for more than 30 years, having struggled to find her voice.[5]

In 2016, Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life was adapted by Nick Hornby for the BBC, as Love, Nina, starring Faye Marsay in the title role and Helena Bonham Carter.[9]

Reasons to be Cheerful won the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize,[10] becoming the fourth woman to win the prize.[11] Man At The Helm had been shortlisted in 2015 and Paradise Lodge had been on the 2017 shortlist.[12] Two rare breed pigs were named Reasons and Cheerful after the novel's title.[12]

In 2020, Stibbe was awarded the Comedy Women in Print Prize for Reasons to be Cheerful, winning £3,000.[11]

Awards

Bibliography

  • Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, London: Penguin, 2013
  • Man at the Helm, London: Penguin, 2014
  • Paradise Lodge, London: Penguin, 2016
  • An Almost Perfect Christmas, London: Penguin 2017
  • Reasons to be Cheerful, London: Penguin 2019

References

  1. ^ a b "Nina Stibbe interview: 'I always thought I'd be a writer, but I had no belief in myself'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  2. ^ "Love, Nina: confessions of a north London nanny". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  3. ^ Clark, Interview by Alex (2015-06-20). "Nina Stibbe: 'I wish I'd made Alan Bennett a bit funnier. But to me he was a middle-aged man'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  4. ^ a b Kellaway, Kate (2013-11-10). "Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  5. ^ a b c d "How Nina Stibbe found her voice". The Guardian. 2020-04-21. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  6. ^ "Nina Stibbe". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  7. ^ a b "About Nina Stibbe | Nina Stibbe". www.ninastibbe.com. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  8. ^ "Nina Stibbe: Interview | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  9. ^ "BBC - Love, Nina - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  10. ^ a b "Nina Stibbe wins 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  11. ^ a b c Flood, Alison (2020-09-14). "'Men still say women aren't funny': Nina Stibbe wins Comedy women in print prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  12. ^ a b "Wodehouse Prize: Nina Stibbe's Reasons To Be Cheerful wins". BBC News. 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  13. ^ "Previous Winners". CWIP. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
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