Louise Doughty - novelist, playwright, critic, UK
Awards
1990: Ian St. James Award for the short story
A Whore's Vengeance, published in the collection Success Strikes Twelve and later reprinted in Class Work edited by Malcolm Bradbury

Radio Times Drama Award for first radio play, Maybe, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1991
1995: Author's club first novel prize, shortlisted for Crazy Paving

David Higham prize, shortlisted for Crazy Paving

Yorkshire Post first book prize, shortlisted for Crazy Paving

John Llewelyn Rhys prize, shortlisted for Crazy Paving
1999: K. Blundell Trust Award for Fires in the Dark

2001:

 

2008:

Arts Council Writers' Award for Fires in the Dark

 

ACE Grants for the Arts Award for Whatever You Love

Louise Doughty has also been on the judging panels of many awards for new and emerging writers, including the Asham Prize, the David Higham Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. She has been Chair of judges for the Orange Award for New Writers and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.  In 2008, she was a judge for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.