FINGERSMITH was the inspiration for Park Chan-Wook’s Academy Award-winning feature film THE HANDMAIDEN, while THE LITTLE STRANGER was recently adapted as a feature film with Potboiler Productions, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and with a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon.

TV and film adaptations include TIPPING THE VELVET (multi-award-winning, BAFTA nominated) by Sally Head Productions for BBC FINGERSMITH (BAFTA nominated) by Sally Head Productions for BBC AFFINITY (several awards worldwide) by Box TV for ITV THE NIGHT WATCH for BBC. In April 2015 she joined the Council of the Society of Authors. She was named Writer of the Decade at the Stonewall Awards in late 2015.

She was included in Granta’s prestigious list of ‘Best of Young British Novelists 2003’, and in the same year was voted Author of the Year by both publishers and booksellers at the British Book Awards and the BA Conference, and won the Waterstones Author of the Year Award. She has written six novels: TIPPING THE VELVET (1998), which won a Betty Trask Award AFFINITY (1999), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize FINGERSMITH (2002), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger THE NIGHT WATCH (2006), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize THE LITTLE STRANGER (2009), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the South Bank Show Literature Award and THE PAYING GUESTS (2014), which was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

in English Literature and has been an associate lecturer with the Open University.

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