Caitlin Moran
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| Caitlin Moran | |
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| Born | Catherine Elizabeth Moran 5 April 1975 Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, broadcaster |
| Known for |
How To Be a Woman Moranthology |
Caitlin Moran (born 5 April 1975 as Catherine Elizabeth Moran) is a British broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch". Moran is British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011.[1]
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Early life and career [edit]
Moran's Irish-Catholic father is a one-time "drummer and psychedelic rock pioneer" who became "confined to the sofa by osteoarthritis".[2] She is the eldest of eight children and has four sisters and three brothers. She was born in Brighton and then lived in a three bedroom council house in Wolverhampton with her parents and siblings. She attended Springdale Junior School and was then educated at home from the age of 11, having attended secondary school for only three weeks.[3]
At the age of 13 in October 1988 she won a Dillons young readers' contest for an essay on Why I Like Books and was awarded £250 of book tokens. At the age of 15, she won The Observer's Young Reporter of the Year.[4] She began her career as a journalist for Melody Maker, the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.[5] Moran also wrote a novel called The Chronicles of Narmo at the age of 16, inspired by having been part of a home-schooled family. In 1992 she launched her television career, hosting the Channel 4 music show Naked City,[6] which ran for two series and featured a number of then up-and-coming British bands such as Blur, Manic Street Preachers, and the Boo Radleys. Johnny Vaughan co-presented with her on Naked City.
In December 1999, Moran married The Times rock critic Peter Paphides in Coventry and the couple have two daughters, born in 2001 and in 2003. [7]
In 2011, Ebury Press published Moran's book How To Be a Woman in the UK. As of July 2012, it had sold over 400,000 copies in 16 countries.[8]
On 13 July 2012, Moran became a Fellow of the University of Aberystwyth.
In October 2012, Moran received criticism after stating on Twitter that she didn't care about the lack of representation of people of color in "Girls".[9][10]
Awards and honors [edit]
- 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman
- 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman
- 2011 British Press Awards, Interviewer of the Year
- 2011 British Press Awards, Critic of the Year
- 2011 Irish Book Award, Listeners Choice category, How to Be A Woman
- 2011 Cosmopolitan, Ultimate Writer of the Year[11]
- 2010 British Press Awards, Columnist of the Year
Bibliography [edit]
- Moran, Caitlin (1992). The Chronicles of Narmo. Corgi. ISBN 0-552-52724-6.
- Moran, Caitlin (2011). How to Be A Woman. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-194073-7.
- Moran, Caitlin (2012). Moranthology. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-194088-1.
References [edit]
- ^ Interviewer of the Year 2011
- ^ Aida Edemariam "The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran", The Guardian, 18 June 2011
- ^ The Times 2, p2. 28 December 2011
- ^ Moran, Caitlin (2007-11-26). "My glorious career? I won it in a competition". The Times (London). Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ^ "Pop on trial". BBC Online. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
- ^ Davies, Hunter (17 May 1994). "Atrocious mess, precocious mind: Meet Caitlin Moran, newspaper columnist, television presenter, novelist, screenwriter, pop music pundit ... and typical teenage slob". The Independent.
- ^ Moran, Caitlin (2011). How To Be a Woman. HarperCollins. p. 275. ISBN 9780062124296.
- ^ Jen, Doll. "Caitlin Moran on How to Be a Woman, How to Be a Feminist". The Atlantic Wire. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ^ Moran, Caitlin. "Twitter: Nope. I literally couldn't give a shit aboutit.".
- ^ Johnson, Kjerstin (23). "Why I Didn't Run the Caitlin Moran Interview". Bitch.
- ^ "Cosmo's Ultimate Women of the Year Awards 2011 announced!". Cosmopolitan UK. 4.
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