A. L. Kennedy

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A.L. Kennedy is author of two award-winning collections of short stories, four award-winning novels (Most recently, Paradise) and the award-winning Original Bliss: short stories and a novella. She has also written two non-fiction books and a variety of journalism.

She has been a Booker Prize judge, has written for the stage, film and TV and has edited various anthologies and publications. She was listed among Granta's best of Young British novelists. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has sold brushes door-to-door.

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Publishing FAQs

0 Comments | Posted October 23, 2005 | 9:55 PM

SO, WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PUBLISHING?

Fewer publishing houses concentrated in conglomerate hands trying to produce more books of less quality. No full time readers, no full time copy editors and therefore missed newcomers and pisspoor final presentation of texts on the shelves, silly covers, greedy and...

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Gigging

0 Comments | Posted August 18, 2005 | 12:17 AM

The first thing I have to make clear is that I am not good with flying. Flying and me, we have never got on. But because I’ll be talking tonight about touring, about being a writer on tour and doing readings and signings and lectures and all of the things...

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