Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart is an Irish writer, theater producer and television presenter. She is widely known as author of the novel "Damage", which was itself the basis for a film directed by Louis Malle and featuring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche.

Career

Previously the director of Haymarket Publishing, she was a founder of Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour.

She produced several West End plays, including the Evening Standard Award winner, "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico García Lorca.

She has appeared on television as the presenter for the Thames TV series "Books by My Bedside".

Her papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research CenterFact|date=July 2008.

Books

*"Damage", Vintage Books, 1991
*"Sin", Vintage Books, 1992
*"Oblivion", Vintage Books, 1995
*"The Stillest Day", Chatto & Windus, 1998
*"The Reconstructionist", Chatto & Windus, 2001
*"Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets", W. W. Norton, 2008

Personal life

Hart is married to Maurice Saatchi, advertising magnate and former political advisor.

External links

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References

* [http://www.josephinehart.com/biography.htm Josephine Hart Biography]


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