Susannah Clapp
Susannah Clapp (born 1949) is a British writer, who has been the theatre critic of The Observer since 1997 and is a contributor to the BBC's Nightwaves.[1]
Clapp read English at the University of Bristol, where one of her teachers was Christopher Ricks.[citation needed]
An editor and reader at the publisher Jonathan Cape early in her career, Clapp was a founder of the London Review of Books, where she was assistant editor.[2] She is the author of books about Bruce Chatwin and Angela Carter, and is the literary executor of the estates of both authors.[3]
In December 2013, after 14 years' involvement, Clapp resigned from the judging panel of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards following changes in the voting method of which she disapproved.[4] Allegedly, vote rigging reportedly caused by the use of a secret ballot, rather than the judges making their case to each other as had been the previous practice.[5]
References
- ^ Bloomsbury author page
- ^ Hyphen Press website - notes about the LRB
- ^ Clapp's page on RCW agency website
- ^ Susannah Clapp "Why I resigned as an Evening Standard theatre awards judge", theguardian.com, 17 December 2013
- ^ Nicola Merrifield "Critics quit Evening Standard Awards panel amid vote-rigging claims", The Stage, 16 December 2013