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| english food writers | |
| harris, joanne | |
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She was educated at Wakefield Girls' High, Barnsley Sixth Form College and read Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge . After graduating, she began a career as an accountant but switched to teaching, eventually teaching French at Leeds Grammar School and later a French literature course at Sheffield University . Her first novel, ''The Evil Seed'', was published in 1989 , but it and a second novel published in 1993 met with only marginal success. In 1999 , her whimsical though slightly dark and mystical story titled '' Chocolat '', based on food and an exotic locale in the Loire Valley of France , reached No. 1 in the '' London Sunday Times '' newspaper's bestseller list. The book was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Novel Of The Year Award and the movie rights sold to Miramax Pictures . The success of the motion picture, starring Juliette Binoche , brought Harris wide recognition in North America . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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