Kate Atkinson

1951 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: poetry

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Dundee, Queen Anne Grammar School

occupation: screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, short story writer, writer

award received: Member of the Order of the British Empire, E. M. Forster Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

official website: www.kateatkinson.co.uk

Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 in the Novels category for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winning again in 2013 and 2015 under its new name the Costa Book Awards. Source: Wikipedia (en)