Christina Koning
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Christina Koning

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Christina Koning is an award-winning novelist, journalist and academic. She was born in Kuala Belait, Borneo, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. After coming to England, she was educated at the University of Cambridge, Newcastle College of Art, and the University of Edinburgh, eventually settling in south east London. Her first novel, 'A Mild Suicide' (Methuen, 1992), set in Edinburgh in 1977, was short-listed for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. 'Undiscovered Country' (Viking, 1997), won the Encore Award for the best second novel and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Set in the 1950s Venezuela of her early childhood, the novel explored aspects of colonialism -- a theme dealt with elsewhere in Koning's fiction, notably in 'Fabulous Time' (Viking, 2000), which is partly set in China during the 1911 revolution and was awarded a Society of Authors' Travelling Scholarship, and 'The Dark Tower' (Arbuthnot, 2010), set in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Other novels include Variable Stars (Arbuthnot, 2011), about the 18th-century astronomer Caroline Herschel. Line of Sight (Arbuthnot, 2014), was the first in a series of detective stories set during the late 1920s in the aftermath of the First World War. Game of Chance (Arbuthnot, 2015), set in 1929, continues the Blind Detective series, and was followed by Time of Flight (Arbuthnot, 2016), Out of Shot (Arbuthnot, 2017), End of Term (Arbuthnot, 2018) and Twist of Fate (Arbuthnot, 2021). All six novels, and a seventh book, Murder in Dublin (A&B, 2023) have been re-published in a new format and with new titles, by Allison & Busby. Koning has worked extensively as a travel writer and literary critic – notably as Books Editor for The Times and Cosmopolitan, and on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour - and was three times a judge for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize, and Chair of Judges for Girton College's Ridding Reading Prize for several years -- mostly recently in 2023. As an academic, she has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and University of London, and was the 2014-15 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She has taught at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall and was Editor of Collected, the Royal Literary Fund's magazine from 2016 to 2021. Christina Koning has two grown-up children and now lives in Cambridge.
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