Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is the author of such fictional delights as Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange and Coastliners.
She is also the co-author of two cookery books.... The French Kitchen and The French Market.
I had the pleasure of interviewing her for my other site A Taste of Garlic and found the whole experience to be an absolute delight!
You can read that interview here at An interview with Joanne Harris.
She has a very nice web site at the cunningly named… The Joanne Harris Website!
All of Joanne's books are available for purchase from Books about France - just check out the links on the sidebar.
This is what Joanne's publisher has to say about her....
"Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
Since then, she has written five more novels; Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, and, most recently, Gentlemen and Players, plus; Jigs & Reels, a collection of short stories and, with cookery writer Fran Warde, two cookbooks; The French Kitchen and The French Market. Her books are now published in over 40 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. In 2004, Joanne was one of the judges of the Whitbread prize (categories; first novel and overall winner); and in 2005 she was a judge of the Orange prize.
Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as: “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although she also enjoys obfuscation, sleaze, rebellion, witchcraft, armed robbery, tea and biscuits. She is not above bribery and would not necessarily refuse an offer involving exotic travel, champagne or yellow diamonds from Graff. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse and lives with her husband Kevin and her daughter Anouchka, about 15 miles from the place she was born."
Personally, I liked the bit about the “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system!"
All the best
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Author Pages | Keith Eckstein June 18, 2010