Jenny Erdal

Jennie Erdal is a Scottish writer. She is the author of" Ghosting", a funny, moving and ruminative memoir of her childhood and of being the long-serving ghostwriter of Naim Attallah, the publisher and owner of Quartet Books. She worked for him for 20 years, first as a translator of Russian novels, then as a commissioning editor, starting the series "Quartet Encounters", and finally as unacknowledged ghostwriter. For Attallah, she researched, wrote the questions for, and edited in-depth interviews for the collection "Women", and eight further volumes of interviews. Other writing under his name included two novels, a weekly newspaper column, book reviews, letters, poems and even love letters. "Ghosting" was the first book written under her own name. Described by Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of the Independent, as a "modest classic", it was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week". Its literary merit led it to be shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award and for the J R Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. Originally brought out by Canongate, it was published by Doubleday in Canada and the US, by Cossee in Holland and by Aufbau in Germany. She is represented by Jenny Brown of Jenny Brown associates.

External links

* Reviews of Ghosting [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/publish/erdalj.htm Complete Review]
* Article on Erdal [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/10/31/boerd31.xml Daily Telegraph]