Louise Doughty

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 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]

Louise Doughty now lives in London.^[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]

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.^[5]

Her Apple Tree Yard was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014^[6] 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.^[7]

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. ISBN 0-671-71879-7
• Doughty, Louise (1996). Dance with Me (1996). ISBN 0-684-81652-0
• Doughty, Louise (1998). Honey-Dew. ISBN 0-684-82090-0
• Doughty, Louise (2003). Fires in the Dark. ISBN 0-7432-2087-0
• Doughty, Louise (2006). Stone Cradle. ISBN 0-7432-2089-7
• Doughty, Louise (2010). Whatever You Love. ISBN 978-0-571-25475-0
• Doughty, Louise (2013). Apple Tree Yard. 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. ISBN 978-0-571-32194-0

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

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• Official website
• 2012 interview at The Guardian