Background
She was born in Kuala Belait, Borneo, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica.
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Line of Sight by Christina Koning (2014-04-08)
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Line of Sight by Christina Koning (2014-04-08)
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Variable Stars
(This is a story of love and astronomy; music and silence;...)
This is a story of love and astronomy; music and silence; secrets and truth-telling; of world-changing discoveries, and unrequited desire. Moving from York in the 1780s to Regency Bath, and then to Hanover in the 1840s, it concerns the lives of three people-all astronomers. There is Caroline, torn between her passion for music and her passion for the stars; John, deaf from childhood, whose extraordinary mathematical gifts afford him perspectives not available to others; and Edward, friend and mentor to Caroline and to John, who must conceal his innermost feelings from them both. All three find fulfilment in the heavens for the set- backs and disappointments they encounter on earth. All three, in time, come to know the truth about variable stars.
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Game Of Chance by A. C. Koning (2015-05-19)
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Christina Koning
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After coming to England, she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh – the setting for her first novel.
Career
She has worked extensively as a travel writer and literary critic – notably as Books Editor for The Times and Cosmopolitan, and on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour - and is currently a judge for the Society of Authors" McKitterick Prize. As an academic, she has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and University of London, and was the 2014-2015 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She now teaches at Cambridge University"s Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall.
That novel explores aspects of colonialism, an awareness from her early childhood in Venezuela.
Fabulous Time (Viking) is another novel with colonial themes and is partly set in China during the Xinhai_Revolution (1911 revolution). The Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa (1879) is the setting for her workThe Dark Tower (Arbuthnot, 2010).
Recent novels include Variable Stars (Arbuthnot) and Lincolnshire of Sight (Arbuthnot). Lincolnshire of Sight is the first in a series of detective stories set during the 1920s in the aftermath of the First World War, continued in 2015 with Game of Chance and Time of Flight.
Koning has two children, and lives in Cambridge.
Achievements
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Koning"s first novel, A Mild Suicide (Lime Tree) is set in Edinburgh in 1977 and was short-listed for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Her second novel Undiscovered Country (Penguin) won the Encore Award and contended for the Orange Prize for Fiction. lieutenant won the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship.
Works
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Variable Stars
(This is a story of love and astronomy; music and silence;...)
- A Mild Suicide
- Line of Sight by Christina Koning (2014-04-08)
- Line of Sight by Christina Koning (2014-04-08)
- Game Of Chance by A. C. Koning (2015-05-19)
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Variable Stars
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Born
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Died
1977 (aged 66)