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Kathleen Becker
Non-fiction (Travel)
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Literary Norfolk (Aurum Press)
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Scene of the Crime (Aurum Press)
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Marco Polo London Guide
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Biography
Born in 1970 in Marburg, Germany, to German-Irish parents, Kathleen
grew up in the university town of Giessen (near Frankfurt/Main). Now
based mainly in Ipswich, she maintains a CV untainted by anything
approaching a proper job. Kathleen started her career writing for a
local paper and listings magazine alongside studying for a degree in
Modern Languages and Literature at Marburg and Cologne universities.
Coming to London in 1994/5 to teach German at Middlesex University,
she met (fellow EAW member) Julian Earwaker, who was completing a
Writing & Publishing degree there. In 1998, they self-published an
illustrated guide to the literary landscapes of Norfolk under
Julian’s Chapter 6 imprint (www.chapter6.co.uk).
The book was later taken on by Aurum Press, London (now available
through the authors). Four years later, Aurum published their guide
to the landscapes of British detective fiction, Scene of the Crime.
Today, Kathleen works as a freelancer for European English-language
magazines “Spotlight” (Germany,
www.spotlight-online.de)
and “Speakup” (Italy,
www.speakuponline.it), specialising in stories from Britain and
Ireland. Since 1996, her work for German National Radio (www.dradio.de)
has involved anything from 5-minute arts reports on London
exhibitions to hour-long feature programmes on the Thames, the Celts
and the Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome.
In 2004, Kathleen wrote a German guidebook on London (www.marcopolo.de),
which she now updates every year. After completing an in-house
biography of one of Germany’s foremost travel publishers, she is now
planning an English-language guidebook on an African destination in
2006/7 for a major UK travel publisher and is copywriting for Lonely
Planet’s launch in Germany.
Kathleen is open to interesting book/copywriting projects, as well
as translation work (German-English, undertaken with Julian Earwaker).
We’re also always interested in house/pet-sits in beautiful
locations UK/worldwide and London (references available).
Predictably, Kathleen enjoys travelling and reading, but also
hillwalking and film. Recent favourite reads: David Mitchell’s Cloud
Atlas and Antal Szerb’s Journey by Moonlight.
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