Anna Stothard

Anna Stothard (born 1983), is a British novelist, journalist and scriptwriter, and the daughter of Sally Emerson and Peter Stothard.

Stothard in 2011

Writing history

Her first novel, Isabel and Rocco, (ISBN 0-09-944332-5), was published when she was 19. "Dazzling... remarkably accomplished," wrote The Observer.[1] She has written for a number of newspapers, including columns for The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.

She read English at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her first screenplay won a Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland Fast Forward Features prize. She was awarded a scholarship with the Masters programme at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, which she attended until 2008.

Her second novel, The Pink Hotel, was longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize.

gollark: What if I'm not thinking about this very hard and doing maths work?
gollark: What if I'm just making statements for either case and randomly picking between them?
gollark: But what if I said it if you were wrong, to misdirect you confusingly?
gollark: Thus bee.
gollark: But if I did a simple one and chatted about my style lots, I could have expected this to cause people to expect that I had done a more complicated one.

References
  1. Geraldine Bedell (6 April 2003). "Observer review:Isabel and Rocco by Anna Stothard". The Observer. Retrieved 1 February 2011.


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