1. Louisa Young is a British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages.
13 Facts About Louisa Young
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Louisa Young has written three non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart, A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott and her memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart and of his alcoholism.
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Louisa Young is currently working on three new volumes of The Cazalet Chronicles, by Elizabeth Jane Howard.
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Louisa Young is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Louisa Young's work has been nominated and shortlisted for prizes that include the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Costa Novel of the Year, the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Prize, which it won, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Folio Prize.
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Louisa Young was born in London, England, to the politician and writer Wayland Young and Elizabeth Young, Lady Kennet.
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Louisa Young has five siblings, including the sculptor Emily Young.
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Louisa Young was educated at Paddington's Hallfield Primary School, St Paul's Girls' School, Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read history.
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Louisa Young worked as a sub-editor, then as a freelance columnist and feature writer on national publications, including The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Express, Marie Claire, Tatler, Bike and Motorcycle International.
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Louisa Young worked at various stages as a despatch rider, a busker, a waitress, a kitchen-hand and a shop assistant.
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Louisa Young's first book, A Great Task of Happiness, was a biography of her grandmother Kathleen Scott, widow of Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic explorer, published by Macmillan Publishers in 1995.
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Louisa Young co-authored five books for children with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young: Lionboy, Lionboy: The Chase, Lionboy: The Truth, Lee Raven, Boy Thief, and Halo.
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Louisa Young's music project "Birds of Britain" is a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer Alex Mackenzie.