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[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves. This is the sleeve for their [[1987 in music|1987]] [[single (music)|single]], "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]

'''Shelagh Delaney''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent. She is best known for her play ''A Taste Of Honey''.

===Biography===
(contracted; show full)ho strongly believed that plays should be about ordinary people. It opened in the [[East End]] of [[London]] in May 1958, transferring to the [[West End theatre|West End]] early the following year, where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards. In 1960 ''A Taste of Honey'' was staged in [[New York]] and won a drama prize. Two years later Shelagh wrote the [[screenplay]] for the film version, which won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]. 1961 the play was put on screen by director 
[[Tony Richardson]] and starred [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Dora Bryan]]. The film turned out to become 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.

Since then her writing has shown remarkable versatility. In 1963, she produced a collection of [[short stories]] entitled ''Sweetly Sings the Donkey'', several television plays, among them ''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'' (1982), and radio plays such as ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980).

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]].

===Works===
Her works include:

*[[A Taste of Honey]] (1958)
*The Lion in Love (1960)
*Sweetly Sings the Donkey (short stories, 1963)

[[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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