Joanna Trollope wins Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA
Joanna Trollope was today honoured by the Romantic Novelists’
Association with a Lifetime Achievement Awards for her contribution to
romances. The award was announced at the
RNA’s Pure Passion Awards lunch, this year especially marking the Association’s
50th anniversary.
Joanna said: “I am amazed and
thrilled to be given this, and so touched, too. Of course it means a lot in
itself, but it means even more to me because I have such admiration and respect
for the RNA, which must be one of the most professional and supportive of
literary associations around, as all its aspiring writer members know, and of
course, I was one of them, once... So my pleasure and gratitude are very
heartfelt."<
Similarly honoured was Maeve
Binchy. This is not the first time the
RNA has recognised Joanna’s work, having awarded her the Novel of the Year
Award thirty years ago for PARSON HARDING’S DAUGHTER.
The lifetime achievement award comes
only weeks after Trollope’s latest novel THE OTHER FAMILY (her 15th)
went straight to #1 in the hardback fiction chart on publication.