2018.11.25 凯特-阿特金森，小说家

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Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her 1995 debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has won the Costa Novel Award twice, for Life After Life in 2013 and for A God in Ruins two years later.

Born in York in 1951, she was the only child of a couple who ran a medical and surgical supplies shop. She began to write after she had failed her doctorate at Dundee University and had given birth to two daughters. She took on a wide range of jobs while writing short stories for women's magazines, and did not publish her first book until she was in her early 40s.

Her mid-career reinvention as a writer of detective fiction has seen her publish four novels starring her sleuth Jackson Brodie, with another one in the pipeline. She lives in Edinburgh, has two grown-up daughters, and two grandchildren.

BOOK CHOICE: The Collected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickenson
LUXURY ITEM: A 500 year old, mature oak tree
FAVOURITE TRACK: Beethoven's Symphony no. 5



凯特-阿特金森因其1995年的首部小说《博物馆的幕后》获得了惠特布雷德年度图书奖，并两次获得科斯塔小说奖，分别是2013年的《生命之后》和两年后的《废墟上的上帝》。

她1951年出生于约克，是一对经营医疗和外科用品商店的夫妇的独生子。她在邓迪大学攻读博士学位失败并生下两个女儿后开始写作。她一边为妇女杂志写短篇小说，一边从事各种工作，直到40岁出头才出版她的第一本书。

在职业生涯中期，她重新成为一名侦探小说作家，出版了四部由她的侦探杰克逊-布罗迪主演的小说，还有一部正在筹备中。她住在爱丁堡，有两个长大的女儿，还有两个孙子。

书籍选择：《艾米莉-迪肯森的诗和信集》。
奢侈物品：一棵有500年历史的成熟橡树
最喜欢的曲目：贝多芬的第5号交响曲。5