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Celia Brayfield is an English author, academic and cultural commentator. ==Career== Celia Brayfield is best known as a novelist. After early success with the international bestseller ""Pearls"" she focused on contemporary social comedies set in millennial London and its suburbs. In 2005 she joined the staff of Brunel University London to set up the creative writing programme there, becoming Reader in 2006 and Associate Reader in 2015. She is also a Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University and a member of the Higher Education Committee of the National Association of Writers in Education. During her first career as a journalist she specialised in media issues with columns on the Evening Standard and The Times and contributions to many other newspapers and magazines. Following her childhood role model, Robert Louis Stevenson, Celia decided to begin her writing career as a journalist and joined the Sixties magazine " Nova "〔http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/nova.cfm〕 as a trainee sub-editor. She progressed to "The Observer" as assistant to the women's editor, moved to the "Evening Standard", hired as a media columnist by Simon Jenkins in 1974. In 1982 she moved to "The Times" as a television critic, and continues to contribute frequently to that newspaper's op-ed and books pages. The birth of her daughter Chloe in 1980 provided the final spur to Celia's ambition to become a novelist. Her Fleet Street experience of celebrity culture led to her first book as sole author, ''Glitter:the Truth About Fame'', a non-fiction study commissioned by the legendary feminist editor Carmen Callil at Chatto & Windus. Shortly afterwards Callil commissioned her first novel, ''Pearls'', the first of three tremendously successful and highly controversial genre best-sellers with strong feminist themes. From the mid-1990s Celia progressed to novels of a more literary character, mostly contemporary comedies focused on specific social issues. Her later novels have been acclaimed, by Fay Weldon, and others〔''After a life chained to her typewriter, Fay Weldon finally discovers romance'' Mail on Sunday/Night & Day, 30 July 1995〕 for the wit, narrative mastery and acute social observation with which they tackle modern themes. Her novels have been optioned by many film producers including Cruise-Wagner/Paramount Her latest novel, '' Wild Weekend '' a comedy that transposes the eighteenth-century play ''She Stoops To Conquer'' to a Suffolk village in heyday of New Labour, was published by Time Warner Books in the same year, Pan published her latest non-fiction book, ''Deep France'' an account of her year in a small village in the Bearn in South West France. Celia developed a growing interesting in how writers learn to write while doing the rounds of promotion tours and literary festivals. Audience questions led to a series of lectures which were the foundation for ''Bestseller:Secrets of Successful Writing'' commissioned by Victoria Barnsleyat the newly launched publisher Fourth Estate. She has since written two more books about writing, ""itals"" Arts Reviews and, with co-author Duncan Sprott, ""italic"" Writing Historical Fiction.""/italic"" Celia has judged several national literary awards, including the Betty Trask Award, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Authors Club First Novel prize. She served on the committee of management of The Society of Authors from 1995 to 1998. She has taught at the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd centre, founded W4W, a writers' workshop in West London, and until 2003was co-founder and co-director of the National Academy of Writing, which was briefly linked to the University of Central England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celia Brayfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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