This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most revered novelists that you’ve probably never heard of. In her lifetime, she was nominated for the Booker Prize four times, winning for her most well-known novel, The Sea, The Sea, and received numerous other awards, as well as a damehood in 1987. Her work fell out of favour somewhat in the late 1980s and early 1990s but, since her death 20 years ago, there has been a growing appreciation of her 26 novels.
Fiction-writing was not her only skill. Until the late 1960s, she practised as a professional philosopher, teaching at Oxford University and then the Royal College of Art in London; she wrote major works of philosophy that are only now becoming widely appreciated. She also wrote poetry, plays, essays, reviews and thousands of letters, often spending up to four hours a day writing to people all over the world.
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