Stef Penney

Stef Penney (* 1969 in Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom ) is a Scottish filmmaker and author .

Life

Penney grew up in her hometown. At the Bristol University she earned a degree in philosophy and theology before turning to filmmaking. Three short films were made. She then studied film and television at Bournemouth College of Art . After graduating from college, she was in the support program for young writers of the TV (New Writers Scheme) Carlton Television added. In 1996 she also wrote a short film with Anna Friel for the BBC TV series 10 X 10 , which she also directed. The title was You Drive Me . In 2002 , a digital short film starring Lucy Russell was made for the UK Film Council , which has since been sacrificed to save money .

Penney's first novel The Tenderness of Wolves is set in Canada in the 1860s. Since the author was suffering from agoraphobia at the time she wrote the novel , she never went to Canada and had to do her basic research for her work in London libraries.

Awards

• 2006: Costa Book Award for The Tenderness of Wolves .
• 2008: Theakston's old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for TheTenderness of Wolves .

Publications

• The Tenderness of Wolves . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2006, ISBN 1-4165-4074-1 .
  • German by Stefanie Retterbush: The tenderness of wolves . Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-47001-3 .
• The Invisible Ones . Quercus, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85738-293-1 .
  • German by Susanne Goga-Klinkenberg : What happened to Rose . dtv, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-24961-4 .

Web links

• Stef Penney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of the author (en.)