WHEN ANNA BRIDGWATER was a child, she said she wanted to be a writer like Barbara Cartland. That hasn’t happened yet, but she hasn’t given up! The common thread running through everything Anna does is that she deals with the great universal human emotions and experiences. She has written about grief, mental illness, parenthood, love, and desire. For Anna, a text works when it touches the reader’s emotions or awakens the senses. It is emotions and senses that connect us as human beings. When she gives lectures, Anna Bridgwater also tries to reach out and touch the emotions of her audience, and in her eyes, a lecture is a success when there has been both laughter and tears.
AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Anna Bridgwater studied literature and then worked as a journalist for many years. Anna still writes articles from time to time, but in recent years she has mainly worked with long texts – as an author, translator, and editor. She has written two young adult novels, a couple of audiobook series, weekly magazine short stories, and a long list of nonfiction books. As a translator, she has mainly translated romantic novels. It is a fundamental human instinct to strive for harmony and happy endings, and that is what romantic fiction can offer. She also loves literary fiction, but the focus of her own work is genre literature with a broad appeal. If she can help spread the joy of reading or listening to audiobooks, Anna is happy.
ONE DAY, WHEN she is an old lady with big hats and powder on her cheeks, Anna’s dream may come true and she will become the next Barbara Cartland. Until then, she moves between genres and texts that are sure to touch the reader’s heart.
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