Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal (born Mandy Theresa O'Loughlin ; born July 26, 1960 in Birmingham ) is a British social worker and writer.
Life
Mandy O'Loughlin's mother was an Irish nanny and her father was a bus driver of Afro-Caribbean origin. She grew up in two large immigrant families in Birmingham. In 1981 the Handsworth Riots broke out in their neighborhood .
She attended a grammar school at Small Heath, Birmingham and then worked for fifteen years in the municipal social services in probation and family support. She specialized in family law and adoption issues and wrote handouts for adoption law and foster care. She was also installed as a justice of the peace.
O'Loughlin married the lawyer and crown attorney John de Waal, he comes from the Viennese family Ephrussi on his mother's side, the ceramist and writer Edmund de Waal is her brother-in-law. You have two children and the marriage is divorced.
As their children grew up, de Waal completed a degree in creative writing at Brookes University in Oxford, which she graduated with a Masters. As a result, she occasionally published short stories. Her novel My Name Is Leon won the Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2017 , it was shortlisted at the Costa Book Awards in the first work category, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award . In November 2017, De Waal produced the BBC program Where Are All the Working Class Writers?
2019 de Waal was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.
Works (selection)
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My name is Leon: a novel . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016
- My name is Leon: Roman . Translation Katharina Naumann. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2016 ISBN 978-3-499-27230-1
- Six foot six . London: Penguin Books, 2018
- The trick to time . London: Penguin Books, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Kit de Waal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Kit de Waal in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Kit de Waal at perlentaucher.de
- Kit de Waal , website
- Dawn Foster: Kit de Waal: 'Working-class stories need to be told' , Interview, in: The Guardian, By February 3, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kit de Waal: My Irish Heritage , at Writing.ie, April 3, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Waal, Kit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | O'Loughlin, Mandy Theresa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British social worker and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |