Katherine swift author biography
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Katherine Swift
A magical voice in gardening, Katherine’s The Morville Hours, a delicious book about the house and garden where she lives in Shropshire set in the form of a Book of Hours, was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury and became a bestseller. She worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and Dublin before moving to Shropshire and becoming a full-time gardener and writer in 1988. She was the gardening columnist of The Times for four years, writes widely in the gardening press and won the Garden Media Guild journalism Award in 2017. The garden she made at Morville, and the history, geology and wild life of the village, together with its human inhabitants, past and present, forms the backdrop to all her writing.
She has also written a follow-up, The Morville Year (Bloomsbury, 2012), and is working on a third volume.
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Books by Katherine Swift
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Katherine Swift
Katherine Swift (1956–2004) was an Irish-born Portuguese painter, illustrator and ceramicist.
Biography
[edit]Born in Dublin in 1956, Swift was the first child of Patrick Swift (painter) and Oonagh Ryan (formerly married to Alexis Guedroitz with whom she had a daughter, Ania Guédroïtz). Her uncle was the artist and man of letters John Ryan; her aunt the film actress Kathleen Ryan. Her father gave a portrait of the poet Patrick Kavanagh to the doctor, Michael Solomons, as a gift for delivering Katherine and the doctor subsequently bequeathed the portrait to the Dublin Writers Museum, where it can be seen today. Katherine had a bohemian upbringing moving between Dublin, London and the Algarve in southern Portugal. Katherine had shown a gift for drawing and painting from an early age. Her father taught and encouraged her. As a teenager she attended boarding school in England and later studied at Art College in Lisbon and London before moving back to the Algarve permanently in 1982, when her father was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Her portraits include David Wright and her father. She illustrated several books including a guide to Portuguese restaurants. Throughout her life she continuously painted the Algarve landscape. For some years her work was insp