Louise Doughty

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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Louise Doughty is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her bestselling novels, including Apple Tree Yard.<ref name="British Council">Louise Doughty Bio at British Council</ref> She has also worked as a cultural critic for newspapers and magazines.<ref name="British Council" /> Her weekly column for The Daily Telegraph was published as A Novel in a Year in 2007.<ref name="British Council" /> Doughty was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme A Good Read in 1998 to 2001.<ref name="British Council" />

Biography

Doughty was born on 4 September 1963<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in Melton Mowbray and grew up in Oakham, Rutland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She attended Oakham School and is an alumna of Leeds University and of the University of East Anglia. She has lectured and contributed on creative writing in several countries of the world.<ref name="Author's" >Author's site. Retrieved 15 September 2019.</ref>

She is the author of nine novels, five plays for radio and a TV mini-series. In 2013, her seventh novel entitled Apple Tree Yard, was published and became a number one bestseller, selling over half a million copies in the UK alone. It has also been translated in thirty territories worldwide. A four-part television adaptation of the same name was broadcast on BBC One in January 2017. The series, which starred Emily Watson in the lead role and adapted by Amanda Coe, received widespread critical acclaim and consolidated viewing figures of 7 million per episode, making it the most-viewed new BBC drama at that time since The Night Manager.<ref name="Doughty">Template:Cite web</ref>

Her most recent book, Platform Seven (2019), was adapted as a four-part drama, by Paula Milne, with Dancing Ledge Productions for ITV in 2023. Her third novel, Honey-Dew, is under option with Chapter One pictures and she is working on a series outline.

In her first original drama for television, Doughty wrote the three-part thriller Crossfire, about a gun attack on a holiday resort, made by Dancing Ledge Productions for BBC One. It stars Keeley Hawes and was broadcast on 20, 21 and 22 September 2022. She is also an executive producer on the series.

Doughty now lives in London.<ref name="Author's" />

Awards and honours

Doughty's sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was short-listed for the Costa Book Award for fiction in 2010,<ref name="Doughty"/> and long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011.<ref>Orange Prize Longlist Retrieved 14 October 2014 The Guardian</ref>

Apple Tree Yard, was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Choice in the spring of 2014.<ref>Richard & Judy Retrieved 14 October 2014.</ref> Hilary Mantel commented on the novel, "There can’t be a woman alive who hasn't once realised, in a moment of panic, that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty... leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely written book."<ref name="Author's" /> Her novel Black Water, (2016) was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Her short story "Fat White Cop with Ginger Eyebrows" was long-listed for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.<ref>Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award Retrieved 4 March 2018</ref>

Doughty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) from the University of East Anglia.<ref name="Author's" />

Selected works

Novels

Non-fiction

Television

Year Title Writer Executive
Producer 		Creator Notes
2017 Apple Tree Yard Template:No Template:No Template:No Associate producer
2022 Crossfire Template:Yes Template:Yes Template:Yes
2023 Platform Seven Template:No Template:Yes Template:No

Radio Plays

Year Title Broadcaster Notes
1991 Maybe BBC Radio 3 Winner of a Radio Times Drama Award
1994 The Koala Bear Joke BBC Radio 4
1998 Nightworkers BBC Radio 4
2004 Geronimo! BBC Radio 4
2006 The Withered Arm BBC Radio 4 An adaptation of a story by Thomas Hardy

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