Amanda Coe
Amanda Coe (born 1965 in Yorkshire ) is a British writer and screenwriter .
Life
Amanda Coe studied English at the University of Oxford (MA). In 2008 her production of Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story aired. In 2013 she received a British Academy Film Award for the television adaptation of John Brane's novel Room at the Top . She has written for various series on Channel 4 and BBC Four . In 2015 she wrote a biography of the Bloomsbury Group for the BBC . So far (as of 2017) she has published three novels.
Coe is teaching screenwriting at the National Film and Television School .
Coe is married with two children and lives in London.
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- A whore in the kitchen . Stories. London: Virago, 2000
- What They Do in the Dark . London: Virago, 2011
- Getting Colder . London: Virago, 2014
- Everything you do is wrong . London: Little, Brown, 2017
- Scripts
- 2005–2007: Shameless (TV series)
Web links
- Literature by and about Amanda Coe in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Amanda Coe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Amanda Coe , short biography at United Agents
- Anita Sethi : Amanda Coe: "The older I get, the more confident I am about exploring class in my writing" , Interview, in: The Guardian, November 23, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coe, Amanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yorkshire |