1. Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London.
11 Facts About Carole Morin
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Carole Morin has had five novels published: Lampshades, Penniless in Park Lane, Dead Glamorous, Spying on Strange Men and Fleshworld.
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Paul Golding in The Sunday Times compared her favourably to Francoise Sagan, writing 'Carole Morin exploits the same obsessively introspective, whimsically punctuated stream-of-consciousness technique, but she is a much finer plotter and a hell of a better swearer'.
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Carole Morin was Literary Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
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Carole Morin was Associate Editor of Granta magazine and writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison.
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Carole Morin has had weekly columns in both the right of centre The Spectator and left of centre New Statesman; according to The Scotsman she is the only novelist to achieve this.
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Carole Morin has contributed to the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman and The Herald.
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Carole Morin has lived in Kampala and Beijing and now lives in London.
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Carole Morin followed this by winning the Stand short story competition, judged by Angela Carter, in 1987.
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Carole Morin has, by describing completely over-the-top prejudice, shown how absurd prejudice really is.
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Carole Morin made her performance debut at the South Bank Centre and has appeared there several times.