Amanda Craig

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Amanda Craig (born 1959 in the Union of South Africa ) is a British writer and literary critic.

Life

Amanda Craig grew up in Italy, where her parents worked for the United Nations. She attended Bedales School and Clare College in Cambridge in England .

Since then she has been working as a journalist for the major English newspapers. She received the Young Journalist of the Year award and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She mainly writes reviews of books for children and young people and is one of the first to review JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the literature of Philip Pullman .

Since writing novels herself, working as a literary critic has only been a sideline. Craig writes social satires. Her novels are not only connected by the subject, they are also connected by (secondary) characters. Craig's novel Hearts And Minds was named on the longlist of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction .

Craig is married, has two children and made the objection to the gender campaign of the women's rights organization Pinkstinks Germany that - although she too “hated” the color - outlawing the color pink would provoke a child riot.

Works (selection)

  • Foreign Bodies (1990)
  • A Private Place (1991)
    • A good school: Roman . Translation by Gabriele Weber-Jaric. Munich: Ullstein, 2001
  • A Vicious Circle (1996)
    • Pointed feathers: Roman . Translation of Brigitte Heinrich. Munich: List, 2000
  • In a Dark Wood (2000)
  • Love in Idleness (2003)
  • Hearts and Minds (2009)
  • The Lie of the Land (2017)
Literary criticism
  • How to drive a reviewer crazy: author and reviewer Amanda Craig has some pointers for publicists . In: The Bookseller, November 7, 2003, p. 25 ISSN  0006-7539

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amanda Craig: Like most mums I'm sick of the pink plague, but should Labor REALLY be trying to ban our daughters' favorite color? in: Daily Mail , December 8, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Craig, Amanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH South African Union