Stef Penney
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Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a film-maker and writer.
She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films; a BBC 10 x 10 starring Anna Friel and a Film Council Digital Short in 2002 starring Lucy Russell.
She won the 2006 Costa Book Awards and The Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award with her debut novel The Tenderness of Wolves which is set in Canada in the 1860s. The novel starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada.[1]
"Stef Penney author page on Quercus Books website, her UK Publisher". http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/author.php?author=Stef%20Penney&l=8.
"The Tenderness of Wolves book detail page on Quercus Books website". http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/book.php?id=9781847242952.
[edit] References
- ^ Moss, Stephen (9 February 2007). "Stephen Moss on the Costa Book of the Year award winner Stef Penney". The Guardian (London). http://books.guardian.co.uk/costa2006/story/0,,2009239,00.html.
- Moss, Stephen (9 February 2005). "Leave Me Alone". The Guardian (UK). http://books.guardian.co.uk/costa2006/story/0,,2009239,00.html. Retrieved 1 June 2007.
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