Laline Paull

Laline Paull (* in London ) is a British author .

Life

Laline Paull's parents were immigrants from India. She studied literature at the University of Oxford , screenwriting in Los Angeles and theater studies in London.

Her first play Boat Memory , a science fiction story about the return journey of Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle , was commissioned by London's Royal National Theater in 2003 and performed in 2004 with director Phyllida Lloyd as part of the National Theater Connections. Also in 2007 as part of the National Theater Connections, her youth farce Show and Tell was performed with director Jeremy Sams . Her piece Radiance, about Vera Atkins' relationship with agent Noor Inayat Khan, was written for the Latitude Festival in Southwold . Her play Eskimo Sisters premiered at the Southwark Playhouse in 2003 and was directed by Nina Raine . She wrote Los Cuentos de Canterbury together with the Cuban author Lily Ojeda for the Cuban Teatro Gaja . It was premiered there in 2009.

Her first novel, The Bees , was written from the perspective of a bee and translated into several languages. The novel was nominated for both the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2015 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015.

Works

Plays

• Boat memory
• Show and tell
• Radiance
• Eskimo Sisters
• Los Cuentos de Canterbury
• The roundhouse

Novels

• The Bees . Fourth Estate, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-007-55772-1 .
  German-language edition: The bees . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-50147-6 . Translation by Hannes Riffel.
• The Ice . Fourth Estate, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-007-55775-2 .
  German-language edition: Das Eis . Tropen, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-50352-4 . Translation by Dorothee Merkel.

Web links

• Website lalinepaull.com (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Laline Paull at perlentaucher.de
• Laline Paull in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)