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Paola Trimarco
Non-fiction (Academic and Educational)
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Becoming Jane, novelisation of screenplay, Penguin EFL Readers (2008).
'Short Shorts: Exploring Relevance and Narrative,' chapter in Teaching the New English: Short Stories, Macmillan Palgrave (2008).
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Gucci - Business in Fashion (Penguin Readers
Level 2, 2001)
Buy Now
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John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Adapted and
condensed for Penguin Readers, 2000)
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Lexical Opposition: An Analysis of Le Guin's “The
Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” (Journal of Literary Studies,
1999)
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Context and Resistance in a Reading of Porter's
“A Day's Work,” (Phoenix, 1997)
Plays (Stage)
Biography
Paola Trimarco was born in 1962 in Chicago. She first came to the UK
in 1984 to do her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of
Edinburgh. Her early writing career was mostly in education and arts
journalism, with articles and reviews published in The List, Lines
Review and Books in Scotland. As a fulltime freelance journalist in
the 1990s, her articles appeared in The Washington Times and The
Guardian, among others.
In recent years, Paola has moved into scriptwriting and has written
for stage, radio and film, receiving grants and bursaries from Arts
Council England and Film Council UK. Her scripts have received
rehearsed readings at Player-Playwrights, London and at Menagerie
Theatre, Cambridge. Between 2003 and 2005, she was Literary Director
of Peterborough Theatre Workshop and remains active in theatre in
East Anglia and London.
Throughout her writing career, Paola has written short literary
fiction, which has been published in several literary magazines,
such as Fire and Lamport Court, and continues to write reviews for
magazines, such as Mslexia.
Her teaching experience in Higher and Further Education includes
Literature, Linguistics and Creative Writing.
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