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About Joanna Kavenna
Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Her first book The Ice Museum was about travelling in the North. Her second was a novel called Inglorious, which won the Orange Award for New Writing. Her latest book is a novel called The Birth of Love. Kavenna’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the Spectator and the Telegraph, among other publications. She has held writing fellowships at St Antony’s College, Oxford and St John’s College, Cambridge.
She is the current Writer-in-Residence at St Peter's College, Oxford.