Christie Watson
Christie Watson (born 1976) is a British novelist whose novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the Costa First Novel Award in the 2011 Costa Book Awards.[1]
Born in Stevenage, she left school at the age of 16 and after volunteering for a year at Scope (then the Spastics Society) went into nursing.[2] She trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked for more than 10 years as a children's nurse before she began writing.[3] She met her Nigerian paediatrician partner when they were both working at St Mary's Hospital in west London.[4] She won the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary,[3] which enabled her to take an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, from where she graduated in 2009.[5]
Bibliography
- Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, Quercus, 2011. ISBN 978-1849163750
- Where Women are Kings, Quercus, 2014. ISBN 978-1849163811
References
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- ↑ Rosamund urwin, "Interview: Christie Watson, author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away", The Scotsman, 31 December 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Christie Watson — About the Author", Foyles.
- ↑ Nina Lakhani, "Christie Watson: 'Life, death, what makes us human – nursing and writing are about the big questions'", The Independent, 23 January 2012.
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External links
- christiewatson.co.uk
- "Christie Watson's novel out of Africa", Evening Standard, 29 November 2011.
- "Christie Watson, the Costa-nominated writer who can’t give up nursing", The Telegraph, 20 November 2011.
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