June Knox-Mawer
June Ellis Knox-Mawer | |
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Born | June Ellis 10 May 1930 Wrexham, Wales, UK |
Died | 19 April 2006 | (aged 75)
Pen name | June Knox-Mawer |
Occupation | Writer, novelist, radio broadcaster |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Period | 1961–2001 |
Genre | Romance |
Notable awards | RoNA Award |
Spouse | (1951–2007) |
Children | 2 |
June Knox-Mawer, née Ellis (10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales – 19 April 2006) was a British writer of non-fiction books and romance novels and a radio broadcaster. In 1992, her novel Sandstorm won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]
Biography[]
Knox-Mawer was born June Ellis on 10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales, UK, daughter of Frank Ellis, an accountant,[2] and was raised in rural Denbighshire. She worked on the Chester Chronicle.[3] In 1951, she married (1925–2009), a barrister and member of the colonial judiciary; they had a son a and a daughter.[2] The married couple lived in Arabia and Fiji, which inspired her writing. In 1972, they returned to the UK. She died on 19 April 2006, survived by her husband and children.[3]
Bibliography[]
Non-fiction[]
- The Sultans Came to Tea (1961)
- A Gift of Islands: Living in Fiji (1965)
- A South Sea Spell (1975)
- Tales from Paradise: Memories of the British in the South Pacific (1986)
- A Ram in the Well: A Welsh Homecoming (2001)
Novels[]
- Marama (1972) aka Marama of the Islands
- Sandstorm (1992)
- The Shadow of Wings (1995)
References and sources[]
- ^ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 7 October 2012
- ^ Jump up to: a b Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's Who, Pacific Publications, 1968
- ^ Jump up to: a b June Knox-Mawer's Obituary at The Telegraph, 7 October 2012
- 1930 births
- 2006 deaths
- People from Denbighshire
- English romantic fiction writers
- RoNA Award winners
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century British writers
- 20th-century English women writers
- 21st-century English women writers
- Women romantic fiction writers
- English women novelists