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| '''Charlotte Hobson''' (born 1970) is an award-winning ] writer. She is of Russian heritage on her mother's side, and following her mother's death from cancer, she studied Russian at Edinburgh University.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f3148bd4-20da-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d|title=Q&A with author Charlotte Hobson|date=May 27, 2016}}</ref> As part of her degree program, she spent a year abroad in the Russian city of ] in |
'''Charlotte Hobson''' (born 1970) is an award-winning ] writer. She is of Russian heritage on her mother's side, and following her mother's death from cancer, she studied Russian at Edinburgh University.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f3148bd4-20da-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d|title=Q&A with author Charlotte Hobson|date=May 27, 2016}}</ref> As part of her degree program, she spent a year abroad in the Russian city of ] in 1991–1992. Her experiences of living in Russia in the earliest phase of its post-Soviet transition became the subject of her travel memoir ''Black Earth City''. The book won the ], and was also nominated for the ] and the ]. It was reviewed by the NYT, the Guardian and the FT among others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/books/russian-pastoral.html|title=Russian Pastoral (Published 2002)|date=July 14, 2002}}</ref> The book was reissued in 2017 by Faber and Faber with a foreword by ]. Hobson's second book, a novel called ''The Vanishing Future'', appeared in 2017. | ||
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She is married to the writer ].<ref name="auto"/> | ||
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Charlotte Hobson (born 1970) is an award-winning English writer. She is of Russian heritage on her mother's side, and following her mother's death from cancer, she studied Russian at Edinburgh University. As part of her degree program, she spent a year abroad in the Russian city of Voronezh in 1991–1992. Her experiences of living in Russia in the earliest phase of its post-Soviet transition became the subject of her travel memoir Black Earth City. The book won the Somerset Maugham Award, and was also nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. It was reviewed by the NYT, the Guardian and the FT among others. The book was reissued in 2017 by Faber and Faber with a foreword by Peter Pomerantsev. Hobson's second book, a novel called The Vanishing Future, appeared in 2017.
She is married to the writer Philip Marsden.
References
- ^ "Q&A with author Charlotte Hobson". May 27, 2016.
- "Russian Pastoral (Published 2002)". July 14, 2002.