Shelley Silas

Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.

Career

In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.

Her work for BBC Radio Four includes "The Sound of Silence" (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award [] and creating & co-writing "The Magpie Stories" [] ; she also adapted Hanan al-Shaykh's novel "Only in London" and co-adapted Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" (with John Harvey).

She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, "12 Days", published by Virago Press.

tage Plays

* "Shrapnel" (1999)
* "Falling" (2002)
* "Calcutta Kosher" (2004)
* "Mercy Fine" (2005)
* "Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach" (2008)

Radio Plays

* "The Sound of Silence" (2002)
* "The Magpie Stories" (2002)
* "Collective Fascination" (2005)
* "Ink" (2005)
* "Nothing Happened" (2005, co-written with Luke Sorba)
* "Molly's Story" (2007)

Radio Adaptations

* "Calcutta Kosher" (2002)
* "Only in London" (2005)
* "The Raj Quartet" (2005)

References

External links

* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/silas-shelley.html List of Shelly's plays on Doollee]