- Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson (born 1951) is an English author.
Her life
She was born in
York , and studiedEnglish Literature at theUniversity of Dundee , gaining herMasters Degree in 1974. During her final year of this course, she was married for the first time. The marriage lasted only two years, but produced Atkinson's first daughter, Eve, who was born in 1975. She subsequently studied for adoctorate inAmerican Literature which she failed at the viva stage. After leaving university, she took on a variety of miscellaneous jobs from home help to legal secretary and teacher. She lived inWhitby ,Yorkshire for a time, but now lives inEdinburgh .Her works
Her first novel, "
Behind the Scenes at the Museum ", won the 1995Whitbread Book of the Year ahead ofSalman Rushdie 's "The Moor's Last Sigh " andRoy Jenkins 's biography ofWilliam Gladstone . Since then, she has published another four novels, one play, and one collection of short stories. She is a comic novelist whose style often juxtaposes mundane everyday life with fantastic magical events, a technique that contributes to her work's pervasivemagic realism . She has frequently criticised the media's coverage of her work - when she won Whitbread, for example, it was the fact that she was a 'single mother' who lived outside London that garnered the most attention.Published works
Novels
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum " (1995)
*"Human Croquet " (1997)
*"Emotionally Weird" (2000)
*"Case Histories" (2004)
*"One Good Turn" (2006)
*"When Will There Be Good News" (2008)Plays
*"Abandonment" (2000)
tory collections
*"Not the End of the World" (2002)
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/kateatkinson14/ The Wonderful Unofficial Kate Atkinson Website]
* [http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/atkinsonkate/onegoodturn "One Good Turn" Reviews] atMetacritic
* [http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1397.html Kate Atkinson] talking about "One Good Turn" at [http://meettheauthor.co.uk MeetTheAuthor.co.uk]
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