Angela Carter

Angela Carter is an English novelist, journalist, short fiction author, and poet who was known for her picaresque, magical realist and feminist works. Her most critically acclaimed and popular work was the novel “The Bloody Chamber.” She was born in 1940 in Eastbourne, but had to move in with her maternal grandmother in Yorkshire as a child. She graduated with a bachelors in English literature before she got a job at the Croydon Advertiser as a journalist just like her father before her. In 1960, she got married to Paul Carter and the couple was together for twelve years. After winning the Somerset Maugham Award in 1969, Carter relocated to Japan and has asserted that this is the time when she would become radicalized and realize what it means to be a woman. She talked about her experiences in the novel “Nothing Sacred” as well as in “Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces,” a collection of short stories. Angela then went on the move again and lives in Europe, the United States, and Asia given that she was fluent in German and French. Most of the 1970s and 1980s were spent as a writer in residence at various universities. She was writer in residence at the University of East Anglia, University of Sheffield, the University of Adelaide, and Brown University.