Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson ( * 1972 in London) is a British writer.

Life

Mendelson maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews from Ruthenia, which escaped from Czechoslovakia to England in 1939, her father is from Latvia. Mendelson grew up in Oxford, where her father taught as a lawyer at St John 's College. She attended the King's School in Canterbury and studied history at Oxford University.

Her first short story Blood Sugar was proofread by Craig Raine and appeared in a 1998 anthology, her first novel was published in 2001. Were received in 2003 for her second novel, Daughters of Jerusalem, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2004. The bookstore chain Waterstone's has named it in 2007 under the 25 Authors for the Future. Her novel Almost English came in 2013 on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize.

Mendelson writes regularly for TLS, The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer. She works as an editor for the publisher Headline Review. Mendelson lives with her two children and journalist Joanna Briscoe in London.

Works (selection)

• Almost English. London: Mantle, 2013.
• When we were bad. London: Picador, 2007 Meschugge. From the English by Barbara damage. Zurich: Atrium - Verl, 2008.