| 词条 | Christie Watson |
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Early life and educationBorn in Stevenage, she left school at the age of 16 and after volunteering for a year at Scope (then the Spastics Society) went into nursing.[1] She trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital.[2][3] CareerWatson worked for approximately 20 years as a nurse, but retired to concentrate on writing after a period of combining the two professions. NursingHer nursing career included Great Ormond Street Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.[2][3][4] WritingShe won the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary,[2] which enabled her to take an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, from where she graduated in 2009.[5] Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award in the 2011 Costa Book Awards.[6] Her second novel, Where Women Are Kings (2014), also won critical praise and has been widely translated.[7] In 2018 she published a memoir, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story, which was broadcast as the "Book of the Week" on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.[8][9] Private lifeWatson lives in London with her two children. She met her paediatrician partner when they were both working at St Mary's Hospital in west London.[3][4] Bibliography
References1. ^Rosamund urwin, "Interview: Christie Watson, author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away", The Scotsman, 31 December 2011. 2. ^1 2 "Christie Watson — About the Author", Foyles. 3. ^1 2 Nina Lakhani, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/christie-watson-life-death-what-makes-us-human-nursing-and-writing-are-about-the-big-questions-6293237.html "Christie Watson: 'Life, death, what makes us human – nursing and writing are about the big questions'"], The Independent, 23 January 2012. 4. ^1 [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/christie-watsons-novel-out-of-africa-6373080.html "Christie Watson's novel out of Africa"], Evening Standard, 29 November 2011.] 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/nov/16/uea-creative-writing-course-best|title=Is the UEA creative writing course still the best?|author=Laura Barnett|date=16 November 2011|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=17 June 2014}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8990799/Nurse-Christie-Watson-wins-Costa-Book-Award-but-wont-give-up-the-day-job.html|title=Nurse Christie Watson wins Costa Book Award but won't give up the day job|publisher=The Telegraph|author=Anita Singh|date=3 January 2012|accessdate=17 June 2014}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/books/review/where-women-are-kings-by-christie-watson.html|title=‘Where Women Are Kings,’ by Christie Watson|date=8 May 2015|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}} 8. ^Molly Case, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/29/language-of-kindness-nurses-story-christie-watson-review "The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson – review"], The Observer, 29 April 2018. 9. ^[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1q2kt "The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story"], Book of the Week, BBC Radio 4, May 2018. External links
7 : 1976 births|Living people|Alumni of the University of East Anglia|Costa Book Award winners|British writers|People from Stevenage|Date of birth missing (living people) |
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