Kate Atkinson

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Kate Atkinson MBE (born December 20, 1951 in York ) is a British writer .

biography

Atkinson studied English literature and American studies at the University of Dundee , then worked in various professions, such as a lawyer’s secretary and teacher, until she finally started writing in the mid-1980s and with her first short stories, especially the novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum ( Family Album , 1995) was an instant hit. She lives in Edinburgh with her two daughters .

subjects

Kate Atkinson's novels and short stories circle the everyday lives of her people, often families who struggle with difficulties and suddenly find themselves in heavy water or at the edge of their possibilities. With Case Histories ( The Fourth Sister , 2004) she introduced the somewhat sedate private detective Jackson Brodie and set her stories closer to the crime genre without writing dedicated crime novels .

Stylistically, she works with parallel plots in almost all works, which she pulls as loose threads through the plots and only brings them together at the end, where they then lead to astonishing resolutions. The events in their stories, which at first glance border on the fantastic, have led them to be brought close to magical realism . In addition to a remarkable attention to detail and a penchant for overflowing narrative strands, she cultivates a cool comedy that characterizes all of her works. "Atkinson works with cleverly placed information and many jumps in time that can be easily followed while reading, but make retelling a tricky matter," explains Thekla Dannenberg Atkinson's style using the code name Flamingo as an example .

Works (selection)

Novels
  • 1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
  • 1997 Human Croquet
  • 2000 Emotionally Weird
    • The level of weird feelings, German by Anette Grube; Droemer, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-426-19549-6
  • 2013 Life After Life
  • 2014 A God in Ruins
  • 2018 transcription

Jackson Brodie series

stories
  • 2002 Not the End of the World
Plays
  • 2000 abandonment

Film adaptations

Under the title Case Histories , the BBC filmed the first three novels of the Jackson Brodie series in 2011 as a six-part television series with Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie. the scripts were written by Ashley Pharoah (episodes 1 + 2, based on Case Histories ), Matthew Graham (episodes 3 + 4, based on One Good Turn ) and Peter Harness (episodes 5 + 6, based on When Will There Be Good News ). Directed by Marc Jost (episodes 1 + 2), Bill Anderson (episodes 3 + 4) and Dan Zeff (episodes 5 + 6). The series was broadcast between June 5 and June 20, 2011.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perlentaucher from February 25, 2009: References in the review of "Lies of Life"
  2. ↑ Thekla Dannenberg: Critique of the thrillers "Code name Flamingo" by Kate Atkinson and "Ballad of a Forgotten Dead" by Liza Cody - Murder and Advice. In: Perlentaucher.de. May 9, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Lisa Allardice: Transcription by Kate Atkinson review - second world war spying hijinks. September 7, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Stephanie Merritt: Transcription by Kate Atkinson review - secrets and lies in the line of duty. September 4, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Official homepage of the series (accessed September 1, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Atkinson, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH York