Education:
Born: Dundee, 22nd October 1965
Educated: Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 &
Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama) |
Author Profile/Reviews:
Never mind the work, let's review the author. Someone who sits alone
for
hours at a time, typing, must be really fascinating and it beats having to
think about anything, doesn't it ? The main thing you'll probably learn
below is that no one goes to conduct an interview without preconceptions.
"She is radiantly well-scrubbed-looking, with a big, warm,
enthusiastic manner."
Jenny Turner - The Guardian
ALK: Must have been an off day.
"Alison Kennedy opens the door of her sepulchral flat in Glasgow,
head bowed and muttering incomprehensibly. She is round-shouldered,
blue-jeaned
and bare-faced small, hunched person."
Julia Llewellyn Smith - The Times
ALK:
Must have been an off day.
"The picture of well-adjusted bonhomie... her eyes were dazzling."
Tom Adair - Glasgow Herald
ALK: Must have been an off day
"Berkoff was a tough act to follow, but A.L.Kennedy is no
slouch as a
performer herself."
Colin Donald - The Scotsman
ALK: Must have been an off day
"When she reads her stories she lights up the room with the
rhythm of her sentences, the reach of her insight."
ALK:
Must have
been an off day. Good value, though - rhythm and a cheap source of
illumination at parties.
"She has the open and shut face of a 12-year-old girl."
Ajay Close - Glasgow Herald
ALK: But I'll give it back as soon as she asks.
"With such a skilful mixture of debility and repartee, who's
to say
what's real and what's just camouflage ?"
Ajay Close - Glasgow Herald
"She looks like an angel dressed for the street with an unpainted face,
an irregular smile and hair punishingly pulled back."
Kate Kellaway - The Observer
"She often seems pale to the point of translucence; she is plagued with
pain from distortions of her spinal column."
Catherine Lockerbie - W magazine
"In the time that it takes to nod and smile, Kennedy has moved in for the
coup de grace. "This article, she says, smiling, a sharky, neat-toothed
grin, "is therefore unnecessary."
E. Jane Dickson - The Daily Telegraph
ALK: I don't have neat teeth.
".. the figure hunched at the head of a boardroom table, on the fifth floor
of the Random House headquarters, looks far from happy. Her skin is
so pale that you fear it couldn't survive normal daylight and almost her first
words are to request that the harsh office lights be turned off. She
speaks in a voice that's barely a whisper and sips water frantically as if
trying to quench some terrible thirst."
Christina Patterson - The Independent
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Night Geometry
And The Garscadden Trains Short story collection(Polygon/Orion)
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book Award, Saltire Best First
Book Award and Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rees Prize.
Looking
for the Possible Dance Novel(Secker & Warburg/ Minerva)
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book Award and Somerset Maugham
Award.
Author listed Granta/ Sunday Times 20 Best British Young Novelists.
So
I Am Glad Novel(Jonathan Cape/ Vintage)
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book Award, Saltire Best Book
Award, shortlisted for MacVitie Prize, winner of Encore Award.
Tea
And Biscuits (Orion) Short story re-issue
The Life And Death
of Colonel Blimp (BFI)
Non fiction
Everything You Need
Novel (Jonathan Cape/ Vintage)
SAC book award, long-listed Orange Prize
On Bullfighting
Non-fiction (Yellow Jersey)
Original Bliss. Winner Salon.com Award
American edition (Knopf/Vintage)
So I Am Glad
American edition (Knopf/Vintage)
German edition of "Original Bliss" - "Gleissendes
Gluck" (Wagenbach)
German edition of "On Bullfighting" - "Steerkampf" (Wagenbach)
German
anthology of short stories - "Der Makellose Man" (Wagenbach)
German edition of "Looking for the Possible Dance" - "Einladung
Zum
Tanz" (Steidl)
French edition of "Original Bliss" - "Volupté Singuliére" -
(Editions Olivier)
Dutch edition of "Everything you Need" - "Alles
Wat Je Nodig Hebt" (De Geus)
US edition of "On Bullfighting" (Anchor)
US edition of "Everything you Need" (Knopf)
“Alles Was Du Brauchst” German
translation(Wagenbach)
“El Extasis” Spanish translation (Lumen)
“Indelible Acts” Jonathan Cape "Paradise" Jonathan Cape
Canadian edition "Paradise" (Anansi)
German edition of "So I Am Glad" - "Also Bin Ich Froh" (Wagenbach)
French Edition of "So I Am Glad" - Le Contentment
de Jennifer Wilson (Editions L'Olivier)
German edition of "Paradise" - "Paradies" (Wagenbach)
Greek
edition of "Indelible Acts" - "Anexiteles Praxeis" (Hestia)
Hungarian edition of "So I Am Glad" - "Hat Boldog Vagyok" (L'Harmattan)
Checkoslovakian
edition of "Night
Geometry and the Garscadden Trains" Nocni geometrie a vlaky do
Garscaddenu" (Paseka)
French edition of "Paradise" - "Paradis" (Editions de l'Olivier)
Italian
edition of "Indelible Acts" - "Gesti
Indelibili" (Minimum Fax)\\
Italian edition of "Original Bliss" - "Stati
di Grazia" (Minimum Fax)
"Day" Jonathan Cape
Greek edition of "Paradise" - "Paradeisos" (Hestia)
Dutch edition of "Paradise" - "De
Smaak van het Paradijs" (De Geus)
German edition of "Day" - "Day" (Wagenbach) |
1988-89
1989-91
1989-95
1990- to date
Spring 1995
1993-95
1996
1998- 2002
1999
2000
2000 - 2005
2001
2002
2005
2007 |
Community Arts Worker for Clydebank & District.
Writer
in Residence for Hamilton & East Kilbride Social Work
Department.
(Winner of 1990 Social Work Today Award.)
Writer in Residence for
Project Ability, arts & special needs.
Editor of Outside Lines magazine.
Journalist and reviewer for Scotsman,
Glasgow Herald, BBC, STV,
Telegraph, Irish Times, etc
Writer in Residence at Copenhagen University.
Editor of New Writing Scotland
Booker Prize Judge
Management Committee of Project Ability
Editor of "New Writing 9"
made Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
columnist for Guardian
Judge of Guardian First Book Prize
Made Fellow of Royal Society
of Arts
Judge of Orange Prize for Fiction
From 2002 - 2007 A.L.Kennedy was a part time lecturer
in creative writing with St Andrew’s University.
Stand up comedy at various venues
Associate Professor with Warwick University Creative Writing
Programme
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