Journalism
Louise Doughty has worked as a freelance critic, columnist, feature
writer and cultural commentator for numerous newspapers and magazines,
including:
History repeating
Violent attacks on Gypsies in Italy this summer, along with attempts to remove Travellers' homes across Europe, have struck fear into the heart of the Roma community. Novelist Louise Doughty, who has Romany ancestors, reports on the sinister new wave of persecution against Europe's fastest-growing ethnic minority.
The Guardian
September 2008
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1993-1995: theatre critic for the Mail on Sunday
1996: columnist for Express on Sunday
2006 -2007: columnist for the Daily Telegraph's Saturday Review section
Read about how Doughty wrote Fires in the Dark - here and here.
Read about how she wrote Stone Cradle here.
Cover features she has written include After the Flood, for Guardian Review,where Louise Doughty travelled to Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami to talk to the island's writers:
read it here
