Dorothy Koomson

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Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson (* 1971 in London , England ) is a British author.

Life

Koomson, who grew up in London, studied psychology and journalism at the University of Leeds . She successfully completed both subjects. The Afro-British writer then lived in Sydney for two years , where she decided to work as a freelance writer, and currently lives in Brighton . She has written for a number of journals and magazines, apart from the seven novels she has published to date.

At the age of 13, she wrote her first novel There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate , which was never published. In 2003 she made her novel debut with The Cupid Effect . Her third novel, My Best Friend's Girl (2006) was shortlisted by Richard and Judy's Summer Reads and was subsequently a huge hit, when the work sold 90,000 copies in the first two weeks.

She describes the science fiction author JG Ballard as her favorite author , just as she describes the style of writing of other authors in this genre, especially Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett , as shaping the style for herself. Of the modern writers in her own field, she prefers Jane Green , Marian Keyes , Sarah Ball , Madelaine Wickham and some of Andrea Semple's . In addition, as a great role model Jane Austen and with the male authors, Mark Barrowcliffe and Nick Hornby are in the foreground. Oprah Winfrey inspired her to give up the ultimately unpopular work as a journalist in Australia and to work as a freelance writer.

Her works, which they usually on the laptop writes in bed or on the sofa, she referred to herself as "emotional thriller", ie emotional thriller .

plant

  • The Cupid Effect (2003)
  • The Chocolate Run (2004)
  • My best friend's girl . 2006, German From now on forever . Ullstein, Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-548-28055-4
  • Marshmallows For Breakfast . 2007, German Tomorrow the sky begins . Diana, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-453-35567-5
  • Goodnight Beautiful (2008)
  • The Ice Cream Girls (2010)
  • The Woman He Loved Before (2011)
  • The Flavors of Love (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All About Me . Dorothy Koomson Official Website. Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 17, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dorothykoomson.co.uk
  2. ↑ Dorothy Koomson at Little Brown Book Group . Little Brown Book Group. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ Koomson interview with writer Andrea Semple
  4. ↑ Interview with Dorothy Koomson on The Musing of Ondolady - August 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 18, 2012. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ondolady.com
  5. ↑ One Minute With: Dorothy Koomson. In: The Independent , February 19, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  6. ↑ Review of The Woman He Loved Before at www.novelicious.com, August 2011 . Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ Virginia Blackburn: Review The Woman He Loved Before by Dorothy Koomson in: Daily Express , February 13, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Koomson, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London