Kira Cochrane
Kira Cochrane (born 1977)[1] is a British journalist.
She was born and raised in Essex. Her elder brother was killed aged 8 in a traffic accident in 1983; Cochrane's father had died of a heart attack and the family were brought up by their mother.[2] She read American Literature at Sussex and California Universities.[1]
Formerly a journalist on The Sunday Times, she is a feature writer on The Guardian and was the newspaper's women's editor from 2006[3] to 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson. Cochrane is now a feature writer on the newspaper. She wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from around 2006 to July 2008.[4]
Kira Cochrane has published two novels The Naked Season (2003) and Escape Routes for Beginners (2005), which appeared on the long list for the Orange Prize for Fiction[5] In 2009, Cochrane was herself on the judging panel for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction.[6] She co-edited (with Eleanor Mills) Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists[7] (published as Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women in the UK) and has edited an anthology of women's writing which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism (2010).
References
- ^ a b Biography page, Simon & Schuster
- ^ Kira Cochrane "Darin Strauss: Two cars, two deaths", The Guardian, 26 February 2011
- ^ "50 years of the women's page", Guardian website
- ^ Kira Cochrane "And it's goodbye to all that . . .", New Statesman, 3 July 2008
- ^ "Orange Prize for Fiction", The Guardian website
- ^ "Orange Prize for Fiction announces 2009 shortlist", Orange Prize newsroom, 21 April 2009
- ^ Jill Abramson "The Lionesses", New York Times, 8 January 2006
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