Novelist and short-story writer A. L. Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland on 22 October 1965. She studied English and Drama at Warwick University where she began writing dramatic monologues and short stories.
Her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1990), a bleak collection of short stories set in Scotland, won several awards including the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
She has written two other collections of short stories, Now That You're Back (1994) and Original Bliss (1997), and her novels include: Looking for the Possible Dance (1993), which centres on a young Scottish woman's relationships with her father, her lover and her employer; So I Am Glad (1995), winner of the Encore Award, which focuses on the trauma of child sexual abuse and its consequences in adulthood; and Everything You Need (1999).
She wrote the screenplay to the BFI/Channel 4 film Stella Does Tricks, released in 1998, and edited New Writing 9 (2000) with John Fowles. Her new book of short stories, Indelible Acts, was published in autumn 2002.
A. L. Kennedy lives and works in Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1993 and 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her latest novel is Paradise (2004).

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1 February 2007
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2 February 2007
Milan, British Council - Via Manzoni 38

3 February 2007
Turin, Atrium - Piazza Solferino

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