Viv Groskop
Viv Groskop (born July 8, 1973 in Hampshire ) is a British stand-up comedian and journalist .
Life
Viv Groskop grew up in Bruton , Somerset . She studied French and Russian in Cambridge at Selwyn College (BA) and Russian at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (MA).
She began as a journalist for Esquire and the Daily Express and wrote columns for the Sunday Express in 1998. She has been a freelance journalist since then writing articles on books, television series, popular culture, family life and women's issues, and for British newspapers and magazines, and between 2006 and 2008 for the New Statesman . She also writes in Russian for Russian Vogue .
Groskop appears as a comedian with his own lyrics, tours with her show and was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 . She collected her contributions in the book I Laughed, I Cried , which came out in 2013.
Groskop was the director of the Bath Literature Festival from 2014 to 2016 .
Works
- I laughed, I cried: how one woman took on stand-up and (almost) ruined her life . London: Orion, 2013
- Anna Karenina Fix: life lessons from russian literature . Fig Tree, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Viv Groskop in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Viv Groskop , website
- Viv Groskop: I'm 40: the confusion starts here , in: The Guardian , July 6th 2013 (therefore July 7th is her birthday)
- Viv Groskop , Article Directory at The Guardian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groskop, Viv |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British comedian and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampshire |