Catherine Czerkawska
Playwright
About
Catherine Czerkawska has written poems, novels, short stories and award winning plays for the stage and for radio, including over 200 hours of drama for BBC Radio 4. Her stage play Wormwood, about the Chernobyl disaster, was produced to critical acclaim at the Traverse Theatre and is a set text for the Scottish Higher Drama course.
Her third novel The Curiosity Cabinet (Polygon 2005) was one of three finalists for the Dundee Book Prize, and her non-fiction book, God s Islanders, a study of the history and landscape of Gigha, was published by Birlinn in November 2006. She is completing a new novel called ‘The Physic Garden’, as well as a collection of short stories. She has published a poetry pamphlet, The Scent of Blue and participates in public readings throughout Scotland.
Catherine lives in rural Ayrshire with her artist husband Alan Lees, regularly contributes to her own blog and writes occasional freelance articles for various publications including the Financial Times.
More from Catherine Czerkawska
How I Write, part 3
In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers explore the age-old question of where ideas come from and how they get transformed…
How I Write, part 2
In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers discuss the different tools and technologies that help them produce their work. In this…
Catherine Czerkawska
Catherine Czerkawska speaks with Cherise Saywell about Jean Armour, history as fiction and her own career. Catherine Czerkawska speaks with…
Serial Pleasures
Catherine Czerkawska on how she came to write a series of historical novels. Catherine Czerkawska considers the pleasures and drawbacks…
Stitches In Time
Catherine Czerkawska talks about her abiding fascination with antique and vintage fabrics. A passion for collecting vintage textiles – christening…
No Heifer
Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…
Catherine Czerkawska
Playwright
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- University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, 2005–2009