Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty is an English fiction and non-fiction writer, and a playwright and journalist. She has worked as a The Daily Telegraph columnist and as a BBC Radio 4 presenter. Her ninth novel entitled Platform Seven was published in 2019.

Louise Doughty
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, 2012
Born4 September 1963
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
OccupationNovelist, Journalist
Website
www.louisedoughty.com

Biography

Doughty was born on 4 September 1963[1] in Melton Mowbray and grew up in Oakham, Rutland.[2] She attended Oakham School and is an alumna of Leeds University and of the University of East Anglia. She has lectured and contributed on creative writing in several countries of the world.[3]

Doughty has written novels, non-fiction and plays for radio.[4] She has worked as a cultural critic for newspapers and magazines.[4] Her weekly column for The Daily Telegraph was published as A Novel in a Year in 2007.[4] Doughty was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme A Good Read in 1998 to 2001.[4]

In 2013, her seventh novel entitled Apple Tree Yard, was published and became a number one bestseller, selling over half a million copies in the UK alone. It has also been translated in thirty territories worldwide. A four-part television adaptation of the same name was broadcast on BBC One in January 2017. The series, which starred Emily Watson in the lead role, received widespread critical acclaim and consolidated viewing figures of 7 million per episode, making it the most-viewed new BBC drama at that time since The Night Manager.[5]

Louise Doughty now lives in London.[3]

Awards and honours

Doughty's sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was short-listed for the Costa Book Award for fiction in 2010,[6] and long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011.[7]

Her seventh novel, Apple Tree Yard, was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014.[8] Hilary Mantel commented on the novel, "There can’t be a woman alive who hasn't once realised, in a moment of panic, that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty... leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely written book."[3]

Her short story "Fat White Cop with Ginger Eyebrows" was long-listed for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.[9]

Louise Doughty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) from the University of East Anglia.[3]

Selected works

Novels
  • Doughty, Louise (1995). Crazy Paving. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-671-71879-7
  • Doughty, Louise (1996). Dance with Me (1996). Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-684-81652-0
  • Doughty, Louise (1998). Honey-Dew. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-684-82090-0
  • Doughty, Louise (2003). Fires in the Dark. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-7432-2087-0
  • Doughty, Louise (2006). Stone Cradle. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-7432-2089-7
  • Doughty, Louise (2010). Whatever You Love. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25475-0
  • Doughty, Louise (2013). Apple Tree Yard. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-29788-7
  • Doughty, Louise (2016). Black Water. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27866-4
  • Doughty, Louise (2019). Platform Seven. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-32194-0

Non-fiction

Radio Plays
Year Title Broadcaster Notes
1991 Maybe BBC Radio 3 Winner of a Radio Times Drama Award
1994 The Koala Bear Joke BBC Radio 4
1998 Nightworkers BBC Radio 4
2004 Geronimo! BBC Radio 4
2006 The Withered Arm BBC Radio 4 An adaptation of a story by Thomas Hardy

References
  1. "Louise Doughty". www.goodreads.com.
  2. Doughty, Louise (15 September 2019). "Louise Doughty on Melton Mowbray: 'My grandparents' gazes met across a pork pie'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  3. Author's site. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  4. Louise Doughty Bio at British Council
  5. Doughty, Louise. "Louise Doughty - award-winning writer, author, novelist, critic, UK". Louise Doughty. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  6. Doughty, Louise. "Louise Doughty - award-winning writer, author, novelist, critic, UK". Louise Doughty. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  7. Orange Prize Longlist Retrieved 14 October 2014 The Guardian
  8. Richard & Judy Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  9. Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award Retrieved 4 March 2018
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