Louise Doughty
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Louise Doughty is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's
Creative Writing Course
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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".
Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize
. Her latest novel Whatever You Love was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...
Creative Writing Course
UEA Creative Writing Course
The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970. The M.A. is widely regarded as the most prestigious and successful in the country and competition for places is notoriously tough....
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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".
Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
. Her latest novel Whatever You Love was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.
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
- Fires in the Dark, 2003, ISBN 0-7432-2087-0, a novel about the Roma experience in central EuropeCentral EuropeCentral Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...
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. - Stone Cradle, 2006, ISBN 0-7432-2089-7, which continues Doughty's exploration of her Roma family background.
- Whatever You Love, 2010, ISBN 978-0571254750