Angela
Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist
magical realist works.
Born
Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, she at first worked
as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser. She married twice,
leaving her first husband using the proceeds of the Somerset Maugham
Award for literature and spending two years living in Tokyo. She
then explored the United States, Asia and Europe. She spent much
of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities,
including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University
of Adelaide and the University of East Anglia.
Carter
also contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent
and New Statesman. To
date two films, The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop
(1987), have adapted her work. She wrote the scripts to both productions.
The collection, The Curious Room, contains the scripts to both
adaptations.
Angela
Carter died in 1992 after developing cancer. |
