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Kate Atkinson

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English writer of novels, plays and short stories

United KingdomWritersBorn 1951 · age 74
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Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots.

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2013Not the Booker Prize
2011Member of the Order of the British Empire
2010Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2005Saltire Awards
1998E. M. Forster Award

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Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1951 · age 74
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25 languages

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