Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty (born 4 September 1963, Melton Mowbray) 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.

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.^[1]

Bibliography

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 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 978-0571254750

Non-fiction

• A Novel in a Year, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84737-070-9

References

1. ^ Retrieved 22 March 2011.

External links

• Louise Doughty at Contemporary Writers
• Louise Doughty's personal website
• Louise Doughty's blog at Telegraph