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Louise Doughty
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, 2012
Born	4 September 1963 Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
Occupation	Novelist, Journalist
Website
www.louisedoughty.com

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.

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 first number one bestselling novel Apple Tree Yard was published and sold over half a million copies in the UK alone, and has been translated in thirty territories worldwide. A four-part TV adaptation of the same name was broadcast on BBC One in January 2017. The series, which starred Emily Watson in the lead role, received 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]

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

Her Apple Tree Yard was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014^[7] and adapted for television (Apple Tree Yard) in 2017 with Emily Watson. 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.^[8]

Doughty’s sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.^[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]

• 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

• Doughty, Louise (2007). A Novel in a Year. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84737-070-9

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louise Doughty.

• Official website
• 2012 interview at The Guardian