Ruth Picardy

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Ruth Nadine Picardie (born May 1, 1964 in Reading , † September 22, 1997 in London ) was a British journalist. Picardy became a bestselling author with her autobiographical book I Will Miss Life (Before I say Goodbye). In May 2000, the book reached number 12 on the non-fiction bestseller list of Der Spiegel magazine .

Life

Picardy attended Llanishen High School in Cardiff and then studied in Cambridge , where she studied anthropology at King's College , among other things . After completing his studies, Picardie worked for the English women's magazine Mirabella and the newspaper The Independent, among others . She married the journalist Matt Seaton and gave birth to twins in 1995. The following year Picardy was diagnosed with breast cancer . She reported on the course of her illness in columns in the Life magazine of The Observer newspaper . Picardie died less than a year after the diagnosis in September 1997. After Picardie's death, Matt Seaton and Picardie's sister Justine published a collection of the columns, a selection of letters to the editor and excerpts from Picardie's email correspondence under the title Before I say Goodbye , under which the column in the Observer had already appeared.

Justine Picardie published the book If the Spirit Moves you in 2001 . Life and Love After Death , which in German under the title Hear once more your voice. After my sister's death appeared.

Publications

  • I will miss life . Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 2007; ISBN 3-499-24422-5
  • Before I Say Goodbye: With Contributions from Matt Seaton & Justine Picardie . Audiobook, Penguin Audiobooks, 1998, ISBN 0-14-086860-7

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg, Marianne Wellershoff: The Real Time Real . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2001 ( online ).
  2. ^ Non-fiction books . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2000 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Picardy, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Picardie, Ruth Nadine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1997
Place of death London