Английская Википедия:A. L. Kennedy
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Scottish English Шаблон:Infobox writer Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scots writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.[1]
Biography
Kennedy was born in Dundee to Edwardene Mildred, a teacher, and Robert Alan Kennedy, a psychology lecturer. Her parents divorced when she was 13. She attended the fee-paying High School of Dundee and went on to study for a BA Hons in Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts at the University of Warwick.[2][3][4]
From 1987 to 1989,Шаблон:Citation needed Kennedy was a community arts worker for Clydebank District Council. She then went on to a role as writer-in-residence for Hamilton and East Kilbride Social Work Department from 1989 to 1991. Her work there won a special Social Work Today Award in 1990. From 1989 to 1995 she worked on Project Ability, a Glasgow-based visual arts organisation. In 1995 she was a part-time lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.[4][5]
In 2009, she donated the short story Vanish to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the "Air" collection.[6] In 2016, her novel Serious Sweet was long-listed for the Booker Prize.
In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, she signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few."[7][8]
In 2020 she began contributing a column on her views of Brexit to the German daily paper Süddeutsche Zeitung.[9] [10] [11] [12]
Kennedy currently lives in Wivenhoe[13] and has been an associate professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick[14] since 2007, having previously taught creative writing at the University of St Andrews from 2003 to 2007.
She has performed as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe and literary festivals. Her main comedy club has been The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh.[15]
Awards and honours
- Scottish Arts Council Book Award four times[5]
- 1993, 2003 Granta Best Young British Novelist[5][16]
- 1991 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains[17]
- 1993 Edinburgh Fringe First, The Audition[17][18]
- 1994 Somerset Maugham Award, Looking for the possible dance[5][17]
- 1996 Encore Award winner, So I Am Glad[19]
- 2007 Saltire Society Book of the Year, Day[5][20]
- 2007 Lannan Literary Award for fiction[5]
- 2007 Austrian State Prize for European Literature winner[21]
- 2007 Costa Book Awards Book of the Year, winner for Day[22]
- 2008 Internationale Eifel-Literatur-Preis[5][23]
- 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist All the Rage[24]
- 2016 Heinrich Heine Prize[25]
Works
Novels
- Looking for the Possible Dance (1993) Шаблон:ISBN
- So I Am Glad (1995) Шаблон:ISBN
- Everything You Need (1999) Шаблон:ISBN
- Paradise (2004) Шаблон:ISBN
- Day (5 April 2007) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Blue Book (4 August 2011) Шаблон:ISBN
- Doctor Who: The Drosten's Curse (14 July 2015) Шаблон:ISBN
- Serious Sweet (19 May 2016) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Little Snake (6 November 2018) Шаблон:ISBN
Short story collections
- Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1990) Шаблон:ISBN
- Now That You're Back (1994) Шаблон:ISBN
- Tea and Biscuits (1996) Шаблон:ISBN
- Original Bliss (1997) Шаблон:ISBN
- Indelible Acts (2002) Шаблон:ISBN
- What Becomes (6 August 2009) Шаблон:ISBN
- All the Rage (2014) Шаблон:ISBN
- We Are Attempting To Survive Our Time (2020) Шаблон:ISBN
Non-fiction
- Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1997) Шаблон:ISBN
- On Bullfighting (1999) Шаблон:ISBN
- On Writing (2013) Шаблон:ISBN
- ’’Care of the Luwak’’ (2010)
Screenwriting
- Stella Does Tricks (1997)
- Dice (2001), with John Burnside
Selected radio
- Confessions of a Medium (2010), broadcast as the Saturday Play on BBC Radio 4, 13 March 2010 and 1 March 2013[26]
- Happy Families (2011), broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1 September 2011
- Love Love Love Like The Beatles (2012), broadcast as the Afternoon Drama on BBC Radio 4, 26 June 2012
- AA: America's Gift to the World (2014), broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 6 April 2015[27]
- Subterranean Homesick Blues (beginning 2015), broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 14 September, 2015
References
External links
- Шаблон:Official website
- Шаблон:British council
- A L Kennedy at the Guardian
- BBC profile
- AL Kennedy reading at writLOUD in London
Шаблон:Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- ↑ "Am Rande des Wahnsinns" ("On the Edge of Insanity") in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23/24 October 2021, p. 15. A full-page article about a visit to the Channel Islands, translated to German from the original English by Annette Meyer-Prien.
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- ↑ "AL Kennedy" Шаблон:Webarchive, Courses, Creative Writing, Staff, University of Warwick
- ↑ "AL Kennedy: interview", Daily Telegraph, 5 August 2011
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