A. L. Kennedy: Writer and Performer
“CND Peace Education offers a wealth of quality teaching aids and information suitable for many strands of the modern curriculum. I wish I’d had access to such interesting and challenging material while I was at school – it would, in every sense, have improved my education as a human being and as a citizen of the world.”
– A. L. Kennedy
Biography
A.L.Kennedy was born in Dundee in 1965. She is the author of 17 books: 6 literary novels, 1 science fiction novel, 7 short story collections and 3 works of non-fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
Her prose is published in a number of languages. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. She is also a dramatist for the stage, radio, TV and film. She is an essayist and regularly reads her work on BBC radio. She occasionally writes and performs one-person shows. She writes for a number of UK and overseas publications and for The Guardian Online.