Shelley Silas
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Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.
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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,[1] creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;,[2] adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting 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.
Stage 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)
- I Am Emma Humphreys (2009)
Current radio commissions (2010)
- The People Next Door
- Mr Jones Goes Driving
Radio adaptations
- Calcutta Kosher (2002)
- Only in London (2005)
- The Raj Quartet (2005)
TV
- The Barkers Treatment commission, Monkey Kingdom
