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June Knox-Mawer, née Ellis (10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales – 19 April 2006) was a British writer of non-fiction books and romance novels and a radio broadcaster. In 1992, her novel Sandstorm won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]

Biography[]

Born June Ellis on 10 May 1930 in Wrexham, Wales, UK, daughter of Frank Ellis, an accountant.[2] She raised in rural Denbighshire. She worked on the Chester Chronicle.[3] In 1951, she married Ronald Knox-Mawer (1925–2009), a barrister and member of the colonial judiciary, they had a son a and a daughter.[2] The married couple lived in Arabia and Fiji, which inspired her writing. In 1972, they returned to UK. She died on 19 April 2006, survived by her husband and children.[3]

Bibliography[]

Non-fiction[]

  • The Sultans Came to Tea (1961)
  • A Gift of Islands: Living in Fiji (1965)
  • A South Sea Spell (1975)
  • Tales from Paradise: Memories of the British in the South Pacific (1986)
  • A Ram in the Well: A Welsh Homecoming (2001)

Novels[]

  • Marama (1972) aka Marama of the Islands
  • Sandstorm (1992)
  • The Shadow of Wings (1995)

References and sources[]

  1. Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 7 October 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's Who, Pacific Publications, 1968
  3. 3.0 3.1 June Knox-Mawer's Obituary at The Telegraph, 7 October 2012
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