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Fiona Rintoul

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Other contact method: Agent (Kevin Pocklington): [email protected]
Local authority: Glasgow City
Languages: English
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I’m a writer, translator and journalist. I write novels, short stories and poetry.

My first novel, The Leipzig Affair, is set in the former East Germany, and was informed by the time I spent in East Germany as a student. It was short-listed for the Saltire first book of the year award and serialised on BBC R4’s Book at Bedtime. I’m very interested in the Cold War period and connected issues, such as freedom of expression and democratic ideals.

I’m a linguist by training and am fluent in French and German. In 2014, I completed Outside Verdun, a new English translation of Arnold Zweig’s first world war classic, Erziehung vor Verdun.

I’ve worked on many collaborative creative events, including Words 2008, a writing exhibition at the Mitchell Library that featured workshops, film, open mic and panel discussions, and The Stasi Are Among Us, a strand about banned East German films and literature at the 2011 Glasgow Film Festival. Most recently, I worked on a filmpoem with film-maker Susan Kemp and musician Tom Lyne.

(Photo credit: Peter Edwards)

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Bilingual event; Chairing events; Mentoring; Multilingual event; Panel event; Reading; Residency; Talk; Workshop

Topics of work

Adventure; Class & society; Contemporary fiction; Crime fiction; Drug addiction, alcoholism & substance abuse; Editing & editing your own work; Event production; Food; History; Island communities; Mystery & thriller; Nature; Politics; Publishing & getting published; Translation; Travel writing; Wars & conflicts; World War 1; World War 2

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups will work with

18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+