11 Facts About Carey Harrison

Carey Harrison was an English novelist and dramatist.

Subsequent plays were premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Stables Theatre Club in Manchester, where Carey Harrison was Resident Playwright from 1969 to 1970.

Carey Harrison was the author of 40 stage plays and 16 novels, most notably Richard's Feet, published by Henry Holt and Company in the US and by Heinemann in Britain, winner of the Encore Award from the UK Society of Authors.

Carey Harrison has received numerous grants from the UK Arts Council, and his prizes include Sony Radio Academy Awards, the Giles Cooper Award, the Prix Marulic, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play, the Prix Italia Silver Award and the Best Play award from the Berlin Akademie der Kuenste, as well as two nominations for the Pushcart Prize for Journalism.

Carey Harrison's output includes published translations from French, Italian, German and Spanish authors, and performed translations from the works of Pirandello, Goldoni, Feydeau, and Gert Hofmann.

Carey Harrison's essays have appeared in magazines as diverse as New Politics: a journal of socialist thought, and Chronicles: a paleoconservative magazine of American culture.

Carey Harrison has been a book reviewer for numerous newspapers and journals including The San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and The London Review of Books.

Carey Harrison was one of the London Recruits, a group of young people recruited by the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s to smuggle ANC and SACP literature into South Africa after the ANC had been decimated by the Rivonia trials which ran from 9 October 1963 to 12 June 1964.

Carey Harrison was the half-brother of actor and singer Noel Carey Harrison.

Carey Harrison lived in Woodstock, upstate New York for 28 years, and latterly in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, with his wife, the artist Claire Lambe.

Carey Harrison had three children: Rosie, Chiara, and Sam, and one stepdaughter, Zoe Lambe.