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Christina Koning Born 8 April 1954
Kuala Belait, BorneoNationality British Education Girton College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh Occupation Writer Employer The Times Home town London Awards Encore Award 1999 Website http://www.christinakoning.com Christina Koning is a novelist and short story writer who has reviewed extensively for the UK national press. Koning was born in Kuala Belait, Borneo, in 1954, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh – the setting for her first novel. Since the early 1990s, she has worked as a travel writer and journalist – most recently for The Times. She has also taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. Koning has appeared as a critic on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and has also had stories broadcast on Radio 4; her stories have also appeared in New Writing.
Koning’s first novel, A Mild Suicide, was published by Lime Tree in 1992, and was short-listed for the David Higham Prize for Fiction; her second novel, Undiscovered Country (Penguin) won the Encore Award for fiction and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Fabulous Time (Viking) was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. The Dark Tower (Arbuthnot Books), like much of her earlier work, touches on colonialism and its legacy. Her most recent novel, "Variable Stars" (Arbuthnot Books) is about the eighteenth century astronomer, Caroline Herschel. Koning has two children, and lives in London.
Bibliography
Novels
- A Mild Suicide (1992)
- Undiscovered Country (1998)
- Fabulous Time' (2001)
- The Dark Tower (2010)
- "Variable Stars" (2011)
External links
- Official website
- Arbuthnot Books
- Christina Koning on Twitter
- Christina Koning on Facebook
- Christina Koning on She Writes
Categories:- British novelists
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Academics of the University of Oxford
- Living people
- 1954 births
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