Education
Elderkin grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey and studied English at Downing College, Cambridge then an Master of Arts on the UEA Creative Writing Course taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain.
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Atardecer En Las Montanas De Chocolate/Sunset over Chocolate Mountain (Spanish Edition)
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Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
( Susan Elderkin's brilliant Sunset Over Chocolate Mounta...)
Susan Elderkin's brilliant Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains explores our places in the lives of our loved ones and in the universe. Theobald Moon lives in a lonely corner of the Arizona desert, tending his spectacular cactus garden, his tiny mobile home, and his astounding appetite. He has fled a stifled, cardigan-and-tea-cozy life in south London for this unfamiliar country and is raising Josephine, who has known no other life than their cheerful yet isolated American one. But when a jangling ice-cream truck finds its way into the desert carrying two ill-fated lovers--a pregnant Slovakian shoemaker and a mysterious ice-cream man--it throws Theo's and Josie's careful lives into a chaotic state for which they're totally unprepared. Fantastic upheaval ensues, as well as an inspired redemption. Innovative and accessible, funny and profound, Elderkin's "beautiful, touching story" (Bookseller) explores love and responsibility, and the joys and fears such emotions inspire. It is a rare and tantalizing first novel.
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Susan Elderkin
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Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Career
She went on to become a travel writer, journalist and reviewer, mainly for the Financial Times and to teach creative writing herself at Goldsmith"s College, Birkbeck, University of London, City University London, the Arvon Foundation and Manchester University. She has also worked as an ice-cream seller and taught English at a Slovakian shoe factory. She is a bibliotherapist at The School of and is currently writing a book called The Novel Cure with fellow therapist Ella Berthoud which will prescribe novels to read to aid in various ailments.
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Works
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Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
( Susan Elderkin's brilliant Sunset Over Chocolate Mounta...)
- Sunset over Chocolate Mountain, A Novel
- Atardecer En Las Montanas De Chocolate/Sunset over Chocolate Mountain (Spanish Edition)
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Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Orange Prize for Fiction
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.