Louise Rennison
Louise Rennison ( born 1951 ) is an English writer, comedian and journalist. She is known primarily through a series of children's books that tell in diary form, the life of the fictional 14 -year-old British schoolgirl Georgia Nicolson and based on Rennisons own experiences during their youth.
Life
Rennison was born in 1951 as the daughter of a 17 - year-old mother and grew up in Leeds, Yorkshire in an Irish- Jewish extended family with her parents, grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousin to. She attended a private girls school. When she was 15, the family emigrated to New Zealand. Because it's not like it there, but her parents sent her already after six weeks back to England, where she lived with her grandparents.
Because Louise had made friends with the neighbor boy and grandparents feared an early pregnancy as her mother, Louise sent at the age of 17 back to her parents in New Zealand. Yet she was still pregnant at 17 by a New Zealander and had a daughter, who was adopted shortly after birth and grew up in New Zealand. Only when her daughter was 20 years old, learned Rennison know them.
After the birth of her daughter learned Rennison know a man with whom she lived for seven years, and at the age of 20 years returned to England. In the 1970s she lived in London. After working she decided at the age of 32 years to revive an old childhood dream, and took a course in Fine Art at a college in Brighton. She began to be interested in the stage, and entered into the 1980s, for the first time on its own comedy program called Stevie Wonder Felt My Face. Other programs such as Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head followed. Rennison also wrote material for other stand up comedians, worked for BBC Radio 4 and wrote a column for the London Evening Standard. They attracted the attention of a London publisher, who told them a book for teenage girls (so-called chick lit) to write.
Rennison wrote a book about the ( fictional ) 14 -year-old British schoolgirl Georgia Nicolson, which was based on their own experiences and youth in 1999 under the title Angus, thongs and full -frontal snogging appeared (Eng. 2000 as Angus, Thongs ). Since the book awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award received and sold well in the UK and the USA, followed by several sequels. The books arrived mainly in the U.S. millions of copies; the fourth title of the series, 'Dancing in my nuddy - pants! ', reached in 2003 a week after publication No. 1 on the bestseller list of the New York Times for bound children 's books. End of June 2009 was published under the title ' Are these my basoomas I see before me? ' The tenth book in the series, which should be the last.
Paramount acquired the film rights, and in 2007 the first two books as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (German Angus, Thongs ) were filmed and directed by Gurinder Chadha, who also wrote the screenplay. The film came out in 2008 theaters; the 15 -year-old Georgia Groome played the leading role of Georgia Nicolson. A sequel to the film, it should not give According Rennison. A stage version of the story with the title Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging was shown in 2012 in Leeds.
In July 2010, under the title Withering Tights, the first volume of a three volumes book series Rennisons called Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, who at a school for the performing arts ( performing arts school ) in a world of friendship, rivalry and embarrassing moments ( " a world of friendship, rivalry and embarrassing moments " ) plays. 2013 appeared the third volume of The Taming of the tights.
Then wants Rennison after a yearlong break write again about Georgia Nicolson, now as a student.
Rennison was twice married and lives (2012 ) has recently returned to London after she was long time in Brighton resident. She lives alone.