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Angela Carter ( May 7 , 1940February 16 , 1992 ) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her Post-feminist Magical Realist works.

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne , in 1940 , she at first worked as a Journalist on the '' Croydon Advertiser ''. She married twice, leaving her first husband using the proceeds of the Somerset Maugham Award for literature and spending two years living in Tokyo . She then explored the United States , Asia and Europe . She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University Of Sheffield , Brown University , the University Of Adelaide and the University Of East Anglia .

Carter also contributed many articles to '' The Guardian '', '' The Independent '' and '' New Statesman ''.

To date two films, '' The Company Of Wolves '' ( 1984 ) and '' The Magic Toyshop '' ( 1987 ), have adapted her work. She wrote the scripts to both productions. The collection, ''The Curious Room'', contains the scripts to both adaptations.

Angela Carter died in 1992 after developing cancer.


WORKS AS AUTHOR



Novels












Short Fiction

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces


Black Venus

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories



Dramatic Works

Come Unto These Golden Sands: Four Radio Plays

The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera



Children's Books

The Donkey Prince

Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady

Comic and Curious Cats

The Music People

Moonshadow

Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales

Sea-Cat and Dragon King



Non-fiction

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography

Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writing



WORKS AS EDITOR

  • ''Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories'' (1986)

  • ''The Virago Book of Fairy Tales'' (1990) (a.k.a. ''The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book'')

  • ''The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales'' (1992) (a.k.a.''Strange Things Still Sometimes Happen: Fairy Tales From Around the World'') (1993)

  • ''Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales'' (2005)



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