Charlotte Mendelson
Charlotte Mendelson (born 1972 in London ) is a British writer.
Life
Mendelson's maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews from Ruthenia who were able to flee to England from Czechoslovakia in 1939 ; their father comes from Latvia . Mendelson grew up in Oxford , where her father taught as a lawyer at St John's College . She attended King's School in Canterbury and studied history at Oxford University .
Her first short story Blood Sugar was edited by Craig Raine and appeared in an anthology in 1998, her first novel was published in 2001. In 2003 she received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her second novel Daughters of Jerusalem and in 2004 the Somerset Maugham Award . The bookstore chain Waterstone’s named her among the 25 Authors for the Future in 2007 . Her novel Almost English was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013 .
Mendelson writes regularly for TLS , The Guardian , The Independent and The Observer . She works as an editor for Headline Review . Mendelson lives in London with her two children and the journalist Joanna Briscoe .
Works (selection)
- Rhapsody in green . Kyle Books, 2016
- Almost English . London: Mantle, 2013.
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When we were bad . London: Picador, 2007
- Meshugge . From the English by Barbara Schaden. Zurich: Atrium-Verlag, 2008
- Daughters of Jerusalem . London: Picador, 2003
- Love in Idleness . London: Picador, 2001
Web links
- Literature by and about Charlotte Mendelson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Charlotte Mendelson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Charlotte Mendelson , website
- Charlotte Mendelson , at Picador
- Aida Edemariam: "I wasn't posh and I wasn't confident, and I was really hideous" , Interview, The Guardian , May 8, 2007
- Charlotte Mendelson: Hungarian in Forty Words and Phrases
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Caroline Westbrook: Charlotte Mendelson interview , Somethingjewish, May 4, 2007
- ↑ Carmen Callil ; Craig Raine (Ed.): New writing 7 . London: Vintage: British Council, 1998
- ↑ UK authors of the future unveiled , at BBC , May 17, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendelson, Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |