Kira Cochrane
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Kira Cochrane is a British journalist.
She was born and raised in Essex. Her elder brother was killed aged 8 in a traffic accident in 1983; Cochrane's father had died of a heart attack and the family were brought up by their mother. She read American Literature at the Sussex
and California Universities
.
Formerly a journalist on The Sunday Times, she is a feature writer on The Guardian and the newspaper's women's editor from 2006 to 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson. Cochrane is now a feature writer on the newspaper. She wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from c.2006 to July 2008.
Kira Cochrane has published two novels The Naked Season (2003) and Escape Routes for Beginners (2005), which appeared on the long list for the Orange Prize for Fiction
In 2009, Cochrane was herself on the judging panel for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. She co-edited (with Eleanor Mills) Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists (published as Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women in the UK) and has edited an anthology of women's writing which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism (2010).
She was born and raised in Essex. Her elder brother was killed aged 8 in a traffic accident in 1983; Cochrane's father had died of a heart attack and the family were brought up by their mother. She read American Literature at the Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
and California Universities
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
.
Formerly a journalist on The Sunday Times, she is a feature writer on The Guardian and the newspaper's women's editor from 2006 to 2010, when she was succeeded by Jane Martinson. Cochrane is now a feature writer on the newspaper. She wrote a column for the New Statesman magazine from c.2006 to July 2008.
Kira Cochrane has published two novels The Naked Season (2003) and Escape Routes for Beginners (2005), which appeared on the long list for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year...
In 2009, Cochrane was herself on the judging panel for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. She co-edited (with Eleanor Mills) Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists (published as Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women in the UK) and has edited an anthology of women's writing which has appeared in The Guardian, Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism (2010).