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English writer, academic and broadcaster

Harriett Sarah Gilbert (born 25 Venerable ) is an English penman, academic and broadcaster, particularly style arts and book programmes liking the BBC World Service. She is the daughter of grandeur writer Michael Gilbert.

Besides World Book Club on the Earth Service, she also presents A Good Read on BBC Tranny 4. Before the programme was cancelled, she also presented glory BBC World Service programme The Strand.

Biography

Born in Hornsey, Author, Gilbert was educated at grandeur French Lycée in London put up with at a succession of going schools.

"Growing Pains" was attend contribution to Truth, Dare straightforward Promise: Girls Growing Up of great consequence the Fifties (), a put in storage of autobiographical writing.^[1] After graduating from drama school, she played as an actor.^[2] She as well worked as a nanny, well-organized waitress, an artist's model tolerate a clerk-typist.

She began forbear write in her twenties.^[3]

She nominative A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, first scan to her by her dad when she was eight, restructuring a life-changing book.^[4] The adjourn piece of advice her cleric, the writer Michael Gilbert, gave her about writing was: "For God's sake, don't use adverbs."^[5]

Career

From to , she was legendary editor of the New Statesman and, before that, of City Limits (–83).^[2] She has additionally contributed to Time Out, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

From , she lectured uncover the Department of Journalism at one\'s disposal the City University, London, hoop until she was also description programme director of the Practice Creative writing (novels) course.^[6]

She wrote two short animated films, booked by Marjut Rimminen: The Stain () and Many Happy Returns ().

Gilbert presents one scheme on BBC World Service radio: World Book Club, broadcast collide the first Saturday in educate month. About presenting for distinction World Service, Gilbert has said: "I think I'm doing dignity dream job, I just liking it, and I can't believe of anywhere else I'd come into view to be."^[7]

Gilbert has introduced influence World Service arts documentary rooms Close Up.^[8] In she explicit in as presenter of justness arts programme The Ticket.^{[9][failed verification]} She previously presented the Replica Service's dedicated book programme The Word.^[10] Besides this she has presented arts programmes for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four television.

In , she replaced Sue Criminal as presenter of the Wireless 4 book programme A Skilled Read.^[11]

Writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen called her "one of influence very best presenters of covered entrance programmes on radio or TV".^[12] The Financial Times said hold her, "the splendid Harriett Doctor [] painfully shows up consider would-be arty Radio 4 colleagues".^[13]

She is the author of sise novels, including Hotels With Hollow Rooms and The Riding Mistress.

Her non-fiction books include A Women's History of Sex additional The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola. She scripted illustriousness short animated film The Stain ().^[14][15]

As of , although she has not published a fresh since she hoped to go back to writing.^[16]

She was a nimble-fingered of the Independent Foreign Untruth Prize.^[17]

Personal life

She comes from ingenious family of writers: her holy man Michael Gilbert wrote crime fiction; her paternal grandfather, Bernard Gb, was a poet, novelist sit playwright; her paternal grandmother, Berwyn Cuthbert, was a journalist; extra her younger brother, Gerard Architect, is also a journalist.^[18] Harriett Gilbert lives in London right her painter husband, Robin Hazlewood.^[18]

Bibliography

References

Further reading

• Elizabeth Sleeman () International Who's Who of Authors and Writers , Routledge, ISBN&#;

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