Katy Gardner

Katy Gardner (born 1964) is a British author and anthropologist, best known for her novel Losing Gemma, which was turned into a two-part miniseries for ITV1 in 2006.

Katy Gardner
Born1964 (age 5859)
OccupationAuthor, Anthropologist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge University, London School of Economics
Notable worksLosing Gemma

Gardner is a graduate of Cambridge University who undertook her doctoral research at the London School of Economics. As well as being the author of four novels, she was for some years a Professor of Social Anthropology at Sussex University.

In 2013,[1] Gardner returned to the LSE as a Professor of Anthropology.[2]

Bibliography

  • Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village (1991)
  • Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (2001)
  • Losing Gemma (2002)
  • Age, narrative and migration: the life course and life histories of Bengali elders in London (2002)
  • The Mermaid's Purse (2003)
  • Keefer's Rules (2006)
  • Hidden (2006)
  • Faker (2008)
  • Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh (2012)

References

  1. Sussex Anthropologist, 4:1, Autumn 2013,p.1
  2. "Professor Katy Gardner", LSE Anthropology


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