Jessie Burton

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Jessie Burton
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Jessie Burton, at Bloomsbury publishers,
April 2018
Born
Jessica Kathryn Burton

(1982-08-17) 17 August 1982 (age 41)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Education Central School of Speech and Drama
University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Author, actress

Jessica Kathryn Burton (born 17 August 1982) [1] is an English author; As of 2022, she has published four novels, The Miniaturist , The Muse, The Confession, The House of Fortune and two books for children, The Restless Girls and Medusa. All four adult novels were Sunday Times best-sellers, with The Miniaturist, The Muse and The House of Fortune reaching no. 1, and both The Miniaturist and The Muse were New York Times best-sellers, and Radio 4's Books at Bedtime . Collectively her novels have been published in almost 40 languages. [2] Her short stories have been published in Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist. [3]

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Burton is also a non-fiction writer. Her essays have been published in The Wall Street Journal , The Independent , Vogue , Elle , Red, Grazia , Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator . [3]

Early life and career

Burton studied at Lady Margaret School, [4] Brasenose College, Oxford, and the Central School of Speech and Drama. [5]

A former stage actress, Burton's work in theatre includes The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other at the National Theatre, London in 2008. [6] Having aimed to be "a successful stage actress", by the age of 28 she had stalled in this career, and "could see the writing on the wall - the dream to be the next Kate Winslet wasn’t going to happen. I never fell out of love with acting, it fell out of love with me"; difficulty in getting auditions meant she worked temp jobs, including as a personal assistant in the City of London. [1] [7]

Writing career

Burton's 2014 debut novel The Miniaturist is set in 17th-century Amsterdam. The novel is inspired by Petronella Oortman's dollhouse now at the Rijksmuseum, although it does not otherwise attempt to be a biographical novel. [8] The Miniaturist took over four years to write. It was the subject of a bidding war at the April 2013 London Book Fair. [9] It was adapted as a two-part miniseries for the BBC and PBS Masterpiece in 2017.

Burton's second novel, The Muse, was published in 2016 and is set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London. [10] It was nominated for the 2016 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards. [11]

Burton's first novel for children, The Restless Girls, was published in September 2018. [12] The story is based on the Brothers Grimm tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. [13]

Her third novel for adults, The Confession, was published in 2019. [14] [15] Medusa, her second book for children, was published in 2021. [16]

The House of Fortune, a sequel to The Miniaturist, was published in 2022. [17]

Works

Adult novels
Children's books

Awards and recognitions

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References

  1. 1 2 Inside back cover of 2015 Picador UK paperback edition of The Miniaturist
  2. ↑ "Home is where the heart is: Anita Sethi on Jessie Burton's books".
  3. 1 2 "Jessie Burton". Jessie Burton. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Kellaway, Kate (26 June 2016). "Jessie Burton: 'Success can be as fracturing to your self as failure'". The Observer . Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Blackman, Jaines (28 March 2015). "Best-seller has been a life-changer for Jessie Burton". Oxford Mail . Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  6. ↑ National Theatre : Productions : The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "Jessie Burton's Move from Stage to Page".
  8. ↑ Spiegelman, Ian (29 August 2014). "Jessie Burton on the dollhouse that inspired her novel". USA Today . Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  9. 1 2 "Jessie Burton: I never thought of The Miniaturist as ambitious". BBC News. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  10. ↑ Quinn, Anthony (25 June 2016). "The Muse by Jessie Burton". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  11. ↑ "Inaugural Books are My Bag Award Winners Announced". Foyles. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "The Restless Girls". Bloomsbury Publishing . Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "THE RESTLESS GIRLS". Jessie Burton. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  14. ↑ Hickling, Alfred (21 September 2019). "The Confession by Jessie Burton review – an understated triumph". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  15. ↑ Rhodes, Emily (5 October 2019). "Jessie Burton's The Confession is, frankly, a bit heavy-handed". The Spectator . Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  16. ↑ "Medusa".
  17. ↑ Preston, Alex (5 July 2022). "The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton review – bold and thrilling sequel to The Miniaturist". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  18. ↑ Tim Masters (1 December 2014). "Miniaturist novel named Waterstones book of 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  19. ↑ "Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist voted Specsavers Book of the Year". BBC News. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  20. ↑ [theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/17/carnegie-medal-for-writing-announces-all-female-shortlist "Carnegie medal for writing announces all-female shortlist"]. The Guardian. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2023.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
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