About Katy Gardner
Born 1964. Katy Gardner is a British anthropologist and writer.
Katy Gardner (born 1964) is a British author and anthropologist, best known for her novel Losing Gemma, which was turned into a two-part miniseries for ITV1 in 2006.
Gardner is a graduate of Cambridge University who undertook her doctoral research at the London School of Economics. As well as being the author of four novels, she was for some years a Professor of Social Anthropology at Sussex University.
In 2013, Gardner returned to the LSE as a Professor of Anthropology. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.
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British writer
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Katy Gardner was born in 1964.
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Katy Gardner is an anthropologist and writer.
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