Isabel Ashdown

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Isabel Ashdown (2014)

Isabel Ashdown (born August 30, 1970 in London , Great Britain ) is a British writer . She made her debut with her novel Glasshopper in 2009 and won several awards including The Mail on Sunday Novel Competition and the Hugo Donnelly Prize for Scientific Excellence.

Life

Isabel Ashdown was born in London and grew up in East Witterin on the south coast of England. After a career as a marketing manager etc. a. at The Body Shop International , she studied at the University of Chichester , UK, where she studied English and creative writing and graduated with an MA with honors.

She is now Writer in Residence at the University of Brighton and lives with her husband, a carpenter, and their two children and dogs in West Sussex, on the south coast of England.

A first excerpt from her debut novel Glasshopper (in German “At the end of a summer”, published by Eichborn) was recognized as the best book of the year by the London Evening Standard and The Observer

Glasshopper , Hurry Up and Wait and Summer from '76 are all published in the UK by Myriad Editions. In Germany the first two novels were published by Eichborn and Rowohlt, the third novel has not yet been announced for Germany.

Her fourth novel "Flight" was published in Great Britain in 2015.

Awards

  • 2009: “Hugo Donnelly” award for outstanding scientific achievements
  • 2009: "One of the Best Books of the Year" by the Observer and London Evening Standard

Works

  • Glasshopper Myriad Editions, London 2009
    • Translation: At the end of a summer Dt. by Rainer Schmidt. Eichborn, 2010. ISBN 978-3821861203
  • Hurry Up and Wait Myriad Editions, London 2011
  • Summer of '76 Myriad Editions, London 2013
  • Flight Myriad Editions, London 2015
  • Little Sister Trapeze, 2017
    • Translation: Little Sister - Can you forgive her? German by Charlotte Breuer and Norbert Möllemann. Blanvalet, 2019. ISBN 978-3-7341-0570-8
  • Beautiful Liars Trapeze, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rowohlt Verlag [1]
  2. ↑ Myriad Editions [2]
  3. ↑ Rowohlt Rowohlt Verlag [3]

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personal data
SURNAME Ashdown, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK