Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty

Born (1963-09-04) 4 September 1963
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, U.K.
Occupation Novelist, Journalist
Nationality British
Website
www.louisedoughty.com

Louise Doughty (born 4 September 1963) is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romani background.

Career

Doughty was born in Melton Mowbray and grew up in Rutland. She is an alumna of Leeds University and of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course, headed by Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. She lives in London.[1]

In 2006, Doughty contributed a weekly column to The Daily Telegraph inviting readers to write a Novel in a Year, and the following year a weekly column on the life of a writer entitled "A Writer's Year".[2] Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. She also writes radio plays.

Nominations

Louise Doughty's novel Whatever You Love was short-listed for the Costa award for fiction in 2010 and long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.[3] Apple Tree Yard was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014.[4]

Her short story, "Fat White Cop with Ginger Eyebrows", is currently longlisted for the 2015' Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.

Doughty is quoted as saying, "The comment that has pleased me most in any of the reviews of my work was when one critic said, 'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about.'"[5]

List of works

Novels
  • Crazy Paving, 1995, ISBN 0-671-71879-7
  • Dance with Me, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81652-0
  • Honey-Dew, 1998, ISBN 0-684-82090-0, a murder mystery.
  • Fires in the Dark, 2003, ISBN 0-7432-2087-0, a novel about the Romani experience in central Europe during the Second World War.
  • Stone Cradle, 2006, ISBN 0-7432-2089-7, which continues Doughty's exploration of her Roma family background.
  • Whatever You Love, 2010, ISBN 978-0-571-25475-0
  • Apple Tree Yard, 2013, ISBN 978-0-571-29788-7
  • Black Water, 2016, ISBN 978-0-571-27866-4
Non-fiction
  • A Novel in a Year, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84737-070-9
Plays
  • Maybe, winner of a Radio Times Drama Award, BBC Radio 3, 1991
  • The Koala Bear Joke, BBC Radio 4, 1994
  • Nightworkers, BBC Radio 4, 1998
  • Geronimo!, BBC Radio 4, 2004
  • The Withered Arm, adapting a story by Thomas Hardy, BBC Radio 4, 2006

References

  1. ↑ British Council
  2. ↑ Telegraph site. .
  3. ↑ Guardian site Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Richard & Judy website. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  5. ↑ British Council site...
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