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[[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, FRSL''' (born 25 November 1939) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]], best known for her debut work, ''[[A Taste of Honey]]''.

(contracted; show full)atre Workshop]], who strongly believed that plays should be about ordinary people. It opened at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] in [[London]] on 27 May 1958, and on 10 February 1959, transferred to [[Wyndham's Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]], where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards. On 4 October 1960 the play opened at [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]'s [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]] with [[Joan Plowright]], [[Angela Lansbury]] and [[Billy Dee Williams]].
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  Two years later, Delaney co-wrote the adaptation for the [[A Taste of Honey (film)|film version]], with director [[Tony Richardson]], which starred [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Dora Bryan]] and won Delaney and Richardson a [[BAFTA Award]] for Best British Screenplay. The film was one of the key films of the [[British New Wave]] of cinema.  

She has written a collection of [[short stories]] ''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 ''[[Charlie Bubbles]]'' (1967) and ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]'' (1985), and radio plays such as, i.e. ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980), but Delaney has notnever repeated the level of success she did with her first play. 

Her works have formed the inspiration for 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]].⏎
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==Honours==
In 1985, Delaney was made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].

==Family==
She has one daughter, Charlotte, born in 1964 in London.

==References== 
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Shelagh_Delaney.aspx Encyclopedia entry for Delaney]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0216340/ IMDb entry]
*[http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=delash⏎
*http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/timelines/women.php?year=3&syear=5&  Orlando]

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|PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]], [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]
|DATE OF DEATH     = 
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