Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey writer, dies aged 71

Actors and writers pay tribute to Salford-born playwright and writer, who became an overnight success at 19Shelagh Delaney, the acclaimed playwright whose ground-breaking debut, A Taste of Honey, challenged many of the taboos of 50s Britain, has died. She was 71 and had been suffering from cancer.The feisty Salford-born writer, who drew on the gritty reality of working-class life, was one of the pioneers of the "kitchen sink" realism movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.She was just 19 when A Ta...

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