Angela Carter
1941-1992

Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works. Angela Carter died on the 16th of February 1992 at the age of 51 from cancer. She was the author of many fantastical and macabre novels, collections of short stories and a polemical study of the Marquis de Sade, "The Sadeian Woman." Her novels included "The Magic Toyshop," "Several Perceptions", “Wise Children” and "Nights of the Circus." A number of her works were regarded as fairy tales with modern morals. Ms. Carter's interest in fantasies, fairy tales and dreams was a lifelong commitment. She wrote radio scripts, short stories, children's books and screenplays. She has a collection of updated fairy tales titled “The Bloody Chamber”, and edited several collections of transcribed oral fairy and folk tale collections. Her 1991 novel, "Wise Children," was about the illegitimate twin daughters of a celebrated Shakespearean actor. Angela Carter’s work is a headlong plunge into an alternate universe, the unique creation of one of the most fertile, dark irreverent and baroquely beautiful imaginations in contemporary fiction.

“With Angela Carter's death English literature has lost its high sorceress, its benevolent witch-queen, a burlesque artist of genius and antic grace” - Salman Rushdie

“She was the opposite of parochial. Nothing, for her, was outside the pale: she wanted to know about everything and everyone, and every place and every word. She relished life and language hugely, and revelled in the diverse.” – Margaret Atwood

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