Helen Simpson (author)
Helen Simpson ( born 1959 in Bristol) is a British writer, who in 2001 was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.
Life
Helen Simpson, who grew up in London, studied literature at the University of Oxford and graduated with a treatise on the farce at the time of restoration. She then spent five years as assistant for Vogue magazine, before she wrote as a freelance writer articles for newspapers and magazines as well as two cookbooks.
Her literary debut, the short story collection Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories (1990 ), was honored with both the Young Writer of the Year Award by The Sunday Times as well as with the Somerset Maugham Award. She was also taken up by Granta magazine's list of the 20 best British novelists of the year 1993.
In 2000 he recorded Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, a collection of loosely connected stories about modern women and motherhood, which the Hawthornden Prize was awarded in 2001.
Helen Simpson, who lives in London, wrote in 1994 the libretto for the jazz opera Good Friday, 1663, which was also shown on TV, as well as lyrics for the Jazz Suite Bar Utopia (1996 ) by Kate and Mike Westbrook. Finally, the story collection In - Flight Entertainment appeared (2010).
More Releases
- Unguarded Hours, 1990
- Dear George, 1995
- Constitutional, 2005
- The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea: The Art and Pleasures of Taking Tea, 2006
- Four bare legs in bed and other stories, original title Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories, 1991, ISBN 3-442-41054-1
- DC, darling: stories, original title Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5555-1