Christie Watson
Christie Watson (born 1976) is a British novelist whose novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the Costa First Novel Award in the 2011 Costa Book Awards.[1] Her second novel Where Women Are Kings also won critical praise and has been widely translated. [2]
Born in Stevenage, she left school at the age of 16 and after volunteering for a year at Scope (then the Spastics Society) went into nursing.[3] She trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked for many years as a children's nurse before she began writing and combined the two professions.[4][5] She won the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary,[4] which enabled her to take an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, from where she graduated in 2009.[6] Christie currently works as Programme Director for BA and MA Creative Writing at St Mary's University. She lives in London with her two children.
Bibliography
- Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, Quercus, 2011. ISBN 978-1849163750
- Where Women are Kings, Quercus, 2014. ISBN 978-1849163811
- Here I Stand, Walker Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4063-5838-4
References
- ↑ Anita Singh (3 January 2012). "Nurse Christie Watson wins Costa Book Award but won't give up the day job". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/books/review/where-women-are-kings-by-christie-watson.html?_r=0
- ↑ Rosamund urwin, "Interview: Christie Watson, author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away", The Scotsman, 31 December 2011.
- 1 2 "Christie Watson — About the Author", Foyles.
- ↑ Nina Lakhani, "Christie Watson: 'Life, death, what makes us human – nursing and writing are about the big questions'", The Independent, 23 January 2012.
- ↑ Laura Barnett (16 November 2011). "Is the UEA creative writing course still the best?". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
External links
- christiewatson.co.uk
- "Christie Watson's novel out of Africa", Evening Standard, 29 November 2011.
- "Christie Watson, the Costa-nominated writer who can’t give up nursing", The Telegraph, 20 November 2011.