Tamar Yellin
Novelist
About
Tamar Yellin is a novelist and short story writer. She is the recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize and the Reform Judaism Prize, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Wingate Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her most recent novel is Gladwell the Parodist: A Whydunnit.
More from Tamar Yellin
Tamar Yellin – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
Having acquired an agent, you haven’t got it made: that even a top agent can send your book round and…
Tamar Yellin – The Perfect Place To Write
Writers, especially women, manage to write in all sorts of places. At the corner of the kitchen table while they…
Tamar Yellin – In My Bottom Drawer
My imaginary children: a short little book I knocked off in six months, into which I poured all my anguish…
Location And The Writer, part 22
In “Location and the Writer”, Babs Horton takes us to the ravaged landscapes of Tredegar, Brian Clegg recalls a famous…
Haunted By A Vanished Building
Tamar Yellin explores the history of Ben Rhydding, a vast Victorian mansion in Yorkshire, and how this vanished building came…
Tamar Yellin – Being Genre Fluid
Didn’t Shakespeare combine the quotidian with the supernatural, the mythical with the philosophical, all the time? Didn’t Shakespeare combine the…
Tamar Yellin – The Writer As Outsider
Wasn’t every writer, like every Jew, an eternal alien? Didn’t it constitute their very state of being? Wasn’t every writer,…
Tamar Yellin – The Best Advice I Ever Received
My glorious career as a primary school teacher lasted three years before my most indulgent husband agreed that I could…
Tamar Yellin – How Writing Changes The Writer
In fictionalising my own past it was as if I wiped out my real memories and replaced them with those…
Tamar Yellin – Why I Write
I wrote before I could write. Notebooks filled with lines of scribble and illustrations to represent the stories I knew…