Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, 2012
Born 4 September 1963
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, U.K.
Occupation Novelist, Journalist
Nationality British
Website
www.louisedoughty.com

Louise Doughty is an English writer and journalist.

Early life

Doughty was born on 4 September 1963[1] in Melton Mowbray and grew up in Oakham, Rutland. She is an alumna of Leeds University and of the University of East Anglia.

Career

Doughty has written novels, non-fiction and plays for radio.[2] She has worked as a cultural critic for newspapers and magazines.[2] Her weekly column for The Daily Telegraph was published as A Novel in a Year in 2007.[2] Doughty was a member of the BBC show A Good Read.[2]

Doughty's novel Whatever You Love was short-listed for the Costa Book Award for fiction in 2010 and long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011.[3] Her book, Apple Tree Yard, was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014[4] and adapted for television (Apple Tree Yard) in 2017. Her short story, "Fat White Cop with Ginger Eyebrows", was long-listed for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.[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. ↑
  2. 1 2 3 4 Louise Doughty Bio at British Council
  3. ↑ Orange Prize Longlist Retrieved 14 October 2014 The Guardian
  4. ↑ Richard & Judy Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award Retrieved 4 March 2018


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