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English writer
the Australian actress

Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 in the Novels category for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winning again in 2013 and 2015 under its new name the Costa Book Awards. She studied English literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her master's degree in 1974.

Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year and went on to be a Sunday Times bestseller. Since then, she has published further novels, as well as plays and short stories. Some of her books are part of a series of novels, starting with Case Histories, which feature the character of Jackson Brodie as a private investigator and former police inspector. Atkinson has criticised the media's coverage of her work when she won the Whitbread award, for example, it was the fact that she was a "single mother" who lived outside London that received the most attention. In March 2010, Atkinson appeared at the York Literature Festival, giving a world premier reading from an early chapter from her novel Started Early, Took My Dog (2010), which is set mainly in the English city of Leeds. Atkinson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to literature. On 30 November 2018, she was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Atkinson has been married twice: while a student, to the father of her first daughter Eve, and subsequently to the father of her second daughter Helen. Atkinson lived in Whitby, North Yorkshire, for a time, but now lives in Edinburgh.