Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born 7^th of May 1940, in Eastbourne, England and died the 16 Febuary 1992 at the age of 51, with the diagnostic of lung cancer. In her teenage years she struggled with anorexia, but that would not stop her. She followed her father’s footsteps with working as a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Later she went to the University of Bristol and studied English literature. Angela Carter had two marriages, the first one was with Paul Carter in 1960 and separated him in 1970, the second marriage was with Mark Pearce in 1977, they had a son together. In 1979 the bloody chamber was published by Gollancz which was a major British book publishing house, it is a short fiction collection, in the collection the text “the werewolf” is found, which is the text that we have read in in the class, but short fiction is not the only thing that she wrote, Angela Carter also wrote Poems and children books. In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter 10^th on their list of greatest British writers, she also received a price in 2012, where she was selected as the best winner ever of the “James Tait Black Memorial prize”. It is a literary prize which is awarded for literature that is written in English language.