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Julia Darling

Author profile

born

August 21, 1956 in Winchester, The United Kingdom

died

April 13, 2005

gender

female

website

http://www.juliadarling.co.uk/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Julia Darling was born in Winchester in 1956 in the house Jane Austen died in. She moved to Newcastle in 1980 and began her writing career as a poet, working with a performance group 'The Poetry Virgins' for many years, 'taking poetry to the places that least expected it'[citation needed].

In 1995 she published a book of short stories, Bloodlines with Panurge Press, and many of these stories were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. 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 United States and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second Novel, The Taxi Driver's Daughter, was published by Penguin and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and shor...more

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Books by Julia Darling

Average rating: 3.30 · 129 ratings · 16 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Crocodile Soup 3.25 avg rating — 83 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Taxi Driver's Daughter 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sudden Collapses In Public Places 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Eating the Elephant and Other Plays 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Apology for Absence 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	The Poetry Cure 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Bloodlines 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Modern Riddles by Julia Darling, Ellen Phethean, Gonzalo Jair Diaz 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Book of Newcastle by Sean O'Brien, Julia Darling 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating: