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Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson was born on 20 December 1951 in York, and works as a screenwriter, novelist, playwright and journalist in the United Kingdom. She was educated at the University of Dundee, lives in Edinburgh and Whitby, and writes in the genres of historical fiction and detective fiction.
Atkinson is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and a Member of the Order of the British Empire. She has been nominated for the Dagger in the Library and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her works include When Will There Be Good News?, Transcription and Big Sky.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- January 01, 1951
- Works
- 142
Top works
- When Will There Be Good News?
- Transcription
- Juegos De Interior
- Pricksongs and Descants
- Big Sky
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for
- Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius — Self2025
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 157
- Total plays
- 6,079
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Atkinson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1951-12-20 ) 20 December 1951 (age 74) , York , England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Alma mater
- University of Dundee
- Genre
- Novel , short story .
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kate
- Family name
- Atkinson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- York
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- prose
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Official website
- www.kateatkinson.co.uk
- Image
- KateAtkinson2007.png
- Residence
- Whitby
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- date of birth
- 1951-12-20
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- writing language
- English language
- different from
- Kate Atkinson
- Commons category
- Kate Atkinson (writer)
- name in native language
- Kate Atkinson
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via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kate Atkinson MBE (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kate Atkinson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.