The Guardian: Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – a moving variation on Red Riding Hood
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Angela Carter
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nig…
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culture · English novelist (1940–1992) · linguist · screenwriter · novelist · translator · journalist · science fiction writer · children's writer · writer · playwright · film screenwriter · also Angela Carter, Angela Olive Stalker Carter, Angela Olive Carter, Angela Olive Stalker, Angela Olive Pearce, Carter
Born 7 May 1940 · Died 16 February 1992 · Q234519
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – full-blooded fairytale leaps for the jugular
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: No one got Angela Carter like Corinna Sargood | Susannah Clapp
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The Guardian: Invisible Music by Polly Paulusma review – a vibrant celebration of Angela Carter the folkie
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Angela Carter's exploration of life in a female body taught me to be comfortable in my own | Evie Wyld
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Angela Carter's 'carnival' London home receives blue plaque
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Inferring tumour purity and stromal and immune cell admixture from expression data” in Nature Communications — cited 7,952 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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2008· 2 entries
A large collection of 224 files and volumes containing manuscripts, correspondence, personal diaries, photographs, and audio cassettes
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The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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2001· 2 entries
Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,211 times.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1992· 3 entries
Died 1992-02-16.
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At her home in London after developing lung cancer
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“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
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1985· 1 entry
“So, I suppose that what interests me is the way these fairy tales and folklore are methods of making sense of events and certain occurrences in a particular way.”
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Nights at the Circus (1984).
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Her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name
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1979· 1 entry
Both The Bloody Chamber, and her feminist essay The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography were published
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1977· 1 entry
Carter met Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son and whom she eventually married shortly before her death in 1992
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1969).
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Used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, where, she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982), that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised"
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Magic Toyshop (1968).
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1960· 1 entry
To Paul Carter, ultimately divorcing in 1972
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1940· 2 entries
Born 1940-05-07.
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To Sophia Olive (née Farthing; 1905–1969), a cashier at Selfridge's, and journalist Hugh Alexander Stalker (1896–1988), Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother
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