Louise Doughty

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name = Louise Doughty

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birthplace = Melton Mowbray
nationality = British
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occupation = Novelist, Journalist
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website = http://www.louisedoughty.com
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Louise Doughty (born 4 September 1963, Melton Mowbray) is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course.

In 2006 Doughty wrote a weekly column for the "Daily Telegraph" inviting readers to write [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?menuId=570&menuItemId=8466&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=P8&targetRule A Novel in a Year] . In 2007 she wrote a weekly column on the life of a writer - [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/awritersyear/nosplit/awritersyear.xml A Writer's Year] .

Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on Literature, and is a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

Bibliography

Novels

* "Crazy Paving", 1995, ISBN 0-671-71879-7
* "Dance with Me", 1996, ISBN 0-684-81652-0
* "Honey-Dew", 1998, ISBN 0-684-82090-0
* "Fires in the Dark", 2003, ISBN 0-7432-2087-0, a novel about the Roma experience in central Europe during the second world war.
* "Stone Cradle", 2006, ISBN 0-7432-2089-7, which continues Doughty's exploration of her Roma family background.

Non-fiction

* "A Novel in a Year", 2007, ISBN 978-1847370709

External links

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* [http://louisedoughty.com/ Louise Doughty's personal website]
* [http://my.telegraph.co.uk/louisedoughty Louise Doughty's blog at Telegraph]