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Shelagh Delaney
[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including this one for their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma."]]
'''Shelagh Delaney''' (born [[November 25]], [[1939]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent,  best known for her debut work, ''A Taste Of Honey''.

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Two years later, Shelagh co-wrote with director [[Tony Richardson]] the [[screenplay]] for the film version, which starred [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Dora Bryan]] and won Delaney an [[
Academy Awards|Academy Award]]BAFTA Award]] for Best British Screenplay (along with Richardson). The film was one of the key films of the [[British New Wave]] of cinema in the [[Sixties]]. At the age of 23, Shelagh Delaney had become one of the most famous writers of her time.

She has penned a collection of [[short stories]] entitled ''Sweetly Sings the Donkey'', several television plays, including ''Did your Nanny Come from Bergen?'' (1970), and ''St Martin's Summer'' (1974), award-winning scripts such as ''Charley Bubbles'' and ''Dance with a Stranger'', and radio plays such as ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980), but never has achieved the success she did with her first play. 

Her works have formed the inspiration of several songs written by the British [[singer]]/[[songwriter]] [[Morrissey]], and she featured on the sleeves of the ''[[Louder Than Bombs]]'' [[album]] and ''[[Girlfriend in a Coma (song)|Girlfriend in a Coma]]'' [[single (music)|single]] by his band, [[The Smiths]].
==References and external links==
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*[http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/timelines/women.php?year=3&syear=5& Theatre Museum profile]

[[Category:1939 births|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:British dramatists and playwrights|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:Living people|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People from Salford|Delaney, Shelagh]]

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