Imogen Robertson
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Imogen Robertson is a British director in different media, a poet and novelist.
Biography
She was born and grew up in Darlington, England, attending a local comprehensive and a boys' public school in the sixth form. She studied Russian and German at the University of Cambridge.{{cite news|work=The Telegraph|last=Clements|first=Toby|date=5 June 2009|title=Imogen Robertson|location=London|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5444825/Imogen-Robertson.html|access-date=19 May 2020}}
Her directorial work includes documentaries, TV films, children's television (e.g. Numberjacks for the BBC), radio and museum voiceovers.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695622/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=Numberjacks|website=www.imdb.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1574644/fullcredits?ref_=ttco_ql_1|title=Strictly Tango|website=www.imdb.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236241/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2|title=London Tango|website=www.imdb.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mandy.com/actor/profile/adrian-wheeler|title=Adrian Wheeler|website=www.mandy.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}
She is best-known for her writing. She received a commendation in the National Poetry Competition in 2005. In 2007, she won The Daily Telegraph's 'First thousand words of a novel competition', and this became the opening of her debut work, Instruments of Darkness. Most of her novels are set in the late 18th century and feature the tenacious detective pairing of Mrs. Harriet Westerman, a dynamic Sussex landowner, and her neighbour Gabriel Crowther, an anatomist of quiet renown hiding a baronial past. Robertson has been a candidate for the CWA Historical Dagger three times, for Circle of Shadows, Island of Bones and Theft of Life.{{cite web|url=https://thecwa.co.uk/island-of-bones|title=Historical 2011|website=thecwa.co.uk|access-date=21 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://thecwa.co.uk/imogen-robertson|title=Imogen Robertson|website=thecwa.co.uk|access-date=21 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://thecwa.co.uk/theft-of-life|title=Historical 2014|website=thecwa.co.uk|access-date=21 May 2020}} She has co-written three novels: she wrote King of Kings with Wilbur Smith;{{cite web|url=http://www.historiamag.com/king-of-kings-wilbur-smith-imogen-robertson/|title=King of Kings by Wilbur Smith with Imogen Robertson|website=www.historiamag.com|access-date=21 May 2020}} she collaborated with US screenwriter Darby Kealey (a writer for Patriot) under the pseudonym 'Imogen Kealey' for Liberation, a World War II thriller about French resistance and SOE operative Nancy Wake, which is currently in movie production with Anne Hathaway as the lead character;{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/little-brown-bags-rights-second-world-war-tale-liberation-965371#|title=Little, Brown bags rights to Second World War tale Liberation|website=www.thebookseller.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acclaimed-bestsellers-imogen-kealey-discuss-historical/id1462914754?i=1000473524278|title=Acclaimed Bestsellers Imogen Kealey discuss Historical Thrillers, Screenplays, Craft, and Co-Writing|website=podcasts.apple.com|access-date=19 May 2020}} she wrote another thriller, The House, with former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/tom-watson-the-house-novel-book-parliament-labour-author-a9284596.html|title=Tom Watson to publish debut novel The House – about 'cold-blooded ambition and betrayal' in Parliament|website=www.independent.co.uk|date=15 January 2020 |access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/news/imogen-robertson-tom-watson-collaboration|title=Imogen Robertson & Tom Watson Collaboration|website=www.dhhliteraryagency.com|access-date=19 May 2020}}
Published works
- Instruments of Darkness (2009)
- Anatomy of Murder (2010)
- Island of Bones (2011)
- Circle of Shadows (2012)
- The Paris Winter (2013)
- Theft of Life (2014)
- King of Kings [with Wilbur Smith] (2019)
- Liberation [with Darby Kealey as 'Imogen Kealey'] (2020)
- The House [with Tom Watson] (2020)
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Category:English women novelists
Category:English women film directors
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:English film directors
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:Writers from Darlington