Awards & Winners

Valerie Martin

Date of Birth 14-March-1948
Place of Birth Sedalia
(Pettis County, Missouri, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Author, Teacher
Valerie Martin is an American novelist and short story writer. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, Loyola University New Orleans, The University of New Orleans, The University of Alabama, and Sarah Lawrence College, among other institutions. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has one child, Adrienne, born in 1975. Her novel Property won the prestigious Orange Prize. In 2012, The Observer named Property as one of "The 10 best historical novels". Her other fictional works include Set in Motion, Alexandra, A Recent Martyr, The Consolation of Nature and Other Stories, The Great Divorce, Italian Fever, The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories, and Trespass, as well as Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis, a biography of St. Francis of Assisi. Her most recent novel, The Confessions of Edward Day, was published in August 2009. Her 1990 novel, Mary Reilly, a retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the point of view of a servant in the doctor's house, was released in 1996 as the Columbia TriStar Pictures film, Mary Reilly. It is directed by Stephen Frears and stars John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Julia Roberts as Mary.

Awards by Valerie Martin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Valerie Martin.

2003


Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Honored for : Property

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Mary Reilly

1990


Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Honored for : Mary Reilly

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Mary Reilly