Penelope Gilliatt
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Penelope Gilliatt (March 25, 1932 – May 9, 1993) was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic. Born in London, she was perhaps best known for writing the screenplay for Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971). She won several prestigious Best Screenplay awards for the film, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Writers Guild of America, USA, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The screenplay was also nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.
Gilliatt wrote several novels, including One by One (1965) and A State of Change (1967). Her short stories were collected in Nobody's Business (1972).
As a film critic, Gilliatt wrote numerous reviews for The Observer before she began a column that ran for years in The New Yorker, in which she alternated for six month intervals with Pauline Kael as that publication's chief film reviewer. Gilliatt's column ran from late spring - early fall, and Kael's for the remainder of the year.
Gilliatt was married to playwright John Osborne from 1963 - 1968.
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