Helen Simpson (writer, 1959)

Helen Simpson (* 1959 in Bristol ) is a British writer who was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 2001.

Life

Helen Simpson, who grew up in London , studied literature at the University of Oxford and graduated with a treatise on the farce at the time of the Restoration . She then worked for Vogue magazine for five years before writing articles for newspapers and magazines as well as two cookbooks as a freelance writer .

Her literary debut , the short story collection Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories (1990), won both the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Somerset Maugham Award . She was also named one of the Top 20 British Novelists of 1993 by Granta Magazine.

In 2000, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life , a collection of loosely related stories about modern women and motherhood that won the 2001 Hawthornden Prize.

Helen Simpson, who lives in London, also wrote the libretto for the 1994 jazz opera Good Friday, 1663 , which was also shown on television , and lyrics for the jazz suite Bar Utopia (1996) by Kate and Mike Westbrook . The collection of short stories In-Flight Entertainment was published last (2010).

more publishments

• Unguarded Hours , 1990
• Dear George , 1995
• Constitutional , 2005
• The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea: The Art and Pleasures of Taking Tea , 2006

in German language

• Four bare legs in bed and other stories , original title Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories , 1991, ISBN 3-442-41054-1
• Same, darling: Stories , original title Hey Yeah Right Get a Life , 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5555-1
• Next station: Stories , original title Cockfosters , 2018, ISBN 978-3-0369-5777-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Helen Simpson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Private homepage
• Biography and Bibliography (contemporarywriters.com)
• Author portrait (BBC)
• THE GUARDIAN: Helen Simpson: 'I stuffed it with sex and violence' (Interview, May 28, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ THE SUNDAY TIMES: In flight with Helen Simpson. More superb stories of male cruelty, female inarticulacy and the the sick body belongs to us all (book review, May 5, 2010)
2. ↑ 'Equal sweetheart' - Helen Simpson (book review, buechervielfalt.de) ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 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. 
3. ^ THE PRESS: Helen Simpson: Mutterfreud, Mutterleid (book review, May 15, 2010)