Auteur: Julia Darling

Julia Darling has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1980. She began her writing career as a poet and worked with a performance group, The Poetry Virgins, for many years « taking poetry to the places that least expected it. » In 1998 her first novel Crocodile Soup »was published by Anchor at Transworld. The novel went on to be published in Canada, Australia, Europe and the States and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel The Taxi Driver »s Daughter was published by Penguin, and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and short-listed for the Encore Award. She has also written many plays for stage and radio, including « Posties » for Radio Four »s Women »s Hour, « Manifesto For The New City » for Northern Stage. In 2003 she published her first solo collection of poems called Sudden Collapses In Public Places with Arc Publications. This was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Julia is currently a « Fellow of Literature and Health » in the English School at Newcastle University, and is a recipient of The Northern Rock Foundation Writer »s Award. She is currently writing a new novel for Penguin. To find out more about her work, or to read her weblog go to: www.juliadarling.co.uk