About Isabel Colegate
Lived 1931 – 2023 (aged 91). Isabel Colegate was a British novelist and writer.
Career In 1952, Colegate, in partnership with Anthony Blond, set up the publishing firm, Anthony Blond (London) Ltd.
Colegate's novel The Shooting Party (1980) was adapted as an award-winning film of the same name, released in 1985 by Castle Hill Productions Inc. In 2010, the novel was adapted for radio by the BBC.
Marriage and children In 1953, Colegate married Michael Fenwick Briggs. The couple had two sons, Barnaby and Joshua, and a daughter, Emily.
Death Colegate died on 12 March 2023, at the age of 91.
Awards and honours WH Smith Literary Award for The Shooting Party, 1981 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), 1981 Honorary MA, University of Bath, 1988
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British novelist
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Isabel Colegate was born on 10 September 1931 in United Kingdom, Lincolnshire.
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Isabel Colegate died on 12 March 2023.
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Isabel Colegate was a novelist and writer.
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