Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding ( born February 19, 1958 in Morley ) is a British author.

Life

Fielding studied English at the St Anne 's College, Oxford, and began in 1979 to work for the BBC as a reporter. Since 1985 she is committed to Comic Relief and wrote and produced, among other documentaries about Africa. In 1989 she researched for the documentation Where Hunger is a Weapon of transmitter Thames TV over the rebel war in southern Sudan. Their experiences were the basis for her first novel, Cause Celeb published in 1994, under the title lobster for dinner appeared in Germany in 2000.

From 1990 to 1999 Fielding worked as a journalist and columnist for several London newspapers, including the Sunday Times, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. As of 1995, her columns about Bridget Jones, as the novels were 1996 and 1999, an international success appeared in the Independent. Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast and Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason were also filmed in 2001 and 2004. In 2001, appeared in favor of comic relief of the humorous " Survival Guide " Bridget Jones's Guide to Life, the Helen Fielding wrote from the perspective of Bridget Jones. In addition, she has published a short story in Nick Hornby's short story collection Speaking with the Angel and another in the short story collection Ox- tales in favor of Oxfam.

Fielding was romantically involved from 1999 to 2009 with the Simpsons -author Kevin Curran and got in February 2004 their first son followed by a daughter in 2006. In 2003, she lent her drawn alter ego in the 13th episode (A Star is Born -Again ) of 14 Simpsons Season her voice. Fielding lives in London and Los Angeles.

Works

  • Cause Celeb, London 1994 ( German lobster for dinner. 413 S. Goldmann, Munich 2000) from the English by Anne Pollmann. ISBN 3-442-54508-0
  • The secrets of Olivia Joules. 377 S. Goldmann, Munich 2004. Translated from English by Marcus Ingendaay. ISBN 3-442-31080-6 ( original edition: Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination )
  • Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast. Goldmann, 1999
  • Lobster for dinner. Goldmann, 2000
  • Bridget Jones's Guide to Life. Macmillan, 2001
  • Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason. Goldmann, 2002
  • Mad About the Boy. London 2013 German: Bridget Jones - Something About it. Goldmann 2014
  • Nick Hornby (ed.): Speaking with the Angel. Earthscan, 2002
  • Oxfam (ed.): Ox- tales. Oxfam, 2009

Films

  • 2001: Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast ( Bridget Jones 's Diary )
  • 2004: Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason ( Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) with Renée Zellweger in the lead role.
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