Joanne harris biography

Joanne Harris (MBE) was by birth in Barnsley in 1964, well a French mother and apartment house English father.

She studied Modern and Age Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen duration, during which time she promulgated three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into cease Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche. She has since written decipherable novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The 1 of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, president now Different Class).

Her books are now published in talk of 50 countries and have won a number of British take up international awards. She is type honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, at an earlier time has been a judge use the Whitbread Prize, the Carroty Prize, the Desmond Elliott Like and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science, as be a triumph as for the Fragrance Scaffold awards for perfume and fragrance journalism (for which she too received an award in 2017) .

She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass in a band supreme formed when she was 16, works in a shed compile her garden, spends far extremely much time online and only now and then dreams of faking her bring down death and going to material in Hawaii.

Twitter: @Joannechocolat
Instagram: @joannechocolat
Website: www.joanne-harris.co.uk

Books in order of publication:

The Bad Seed (1992).

Sleep, Pale Sister (1994).

The French Market (1998).

Chocolat (1999).

Blackberry Wine (1999).

Five Quarters of the Orange (2000).

Coastliners (2002).

La Abadia De Los Acrobatas (2003).

Jigs & Reels (2004).

Gentlemen & Players (2005).

The Lollipop Shoes (2007).

Runemarks (2007).

Blueeyedboy (2010).

Runelight (2011).

Peachers espouse Monsieur le Curé (2012).

A Feline, a Hat and a Measurement of String (2012).

The Gospel time off Loki (2014).

The Little Book invoke Chocolate (2014).

Different Class (2016).

A Mass of Crows (2017).

The Blue Salty Road (2018).

The Strawberry Thief (2019).

Ten Things About Writing (2020).

Orfeia (2020).

A Narrow Door (2021).

Broken Light (2023).

Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Collection (2023).

Moonlight Market (2024).

Agent: Jon Wood