Ellen Alpsten
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Ellen Alice Edda Annemarie Alpsten (born 1971 in Kitale, Kenya) is a UK-based author and international journalist.
BIOGRAPHY[edit]
| Ellen Alpsten | |
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| Born | 1971 Kitale, Kenya |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British, Kenyan, German |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Sciences Po |
| 💼 Occupation | Author, Journalist |
| Agent | Curtis Brown |
| Notable work | The 'Tsarina' Series |
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| 🏅 Awards | Shortlisted for 'HWA Debut Crown 2021', Shortlisted for 'The Author's Club' Best First Novel 2020 |
| 🌐 Website | www.ellenalpsten.com |
Ellen Alpsten was born in Kenya in 1971 as the daughter of a veterinarian and a teacher. She is the granddaughter of the West Prussian writer Edda Stadié, a descendant of the West-Prussian historian Bernhard Stadié.
After her family returned to Europe, she graduated from the IEP de Paris Sciences Po with a MSC in PPE. When she won the short story competition of the Grande École in 1998 with her novella 'Meeting Mr. Gandhi', she continued to write. After graduating, she moved to London, finishing the Graduate Management Trainee Program of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, before working as a TV Producer and then Live Anchor on Bloomberg LP Television.
At the same time, the journalist seriously researched another novel, picking up on material that had fascinated her since she was a girl: Catherine I of Russia, the country's first Empress, who started a unique century of female reign in of the world's largest and most powerful realm. Her 2020 debut 'Tsarina' (published by Bloomsbury Books) is the first ever novel about the extraordinary fate and life of this great woman and has been translated into a 16 languages to date. In 2021, the sequel 'The Tsarina's Daughter' was published in what is to be a quartet of novels. The 'Tsarina' series is the sole biographical and literary body of work about these 'undiscovered' early Romanovs. Ellen Alpsten is represented by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown (agency).
Ellen Alpsten works as a freelance author and journalist for a plethora of international publications, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SPIEGEL Online, the German VOGUE magazine, "Cicero", CN Traveller and the political-cultural magazine Standpoint.
Ellen Alpsten lives with her husband, the health-tech entrepreneur Tobias Alpsten, and their three sons in London.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Historia interviews Ellen Alpsten, whose novel, Tsarina, is shortlisted for the 2021 HWA Debut Crown Award – Historia Magazine". www.historiamag.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
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- ↑ "Historical fiction: How to turn fact into fiction". Writers Online. 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten: Wildly entertaining, ferociously exciting, and packed with scandal, dark deeds and deadly desires - book review -". www.lep.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ nitrbeditor (2020-05-14). "Creatives in Profile: an interview with Ellen Alpsten". nothing in the rulebook. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten". NB. 2021-07-12. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ authorsclub (2021-03-26). "Shortlist for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2021". The Authors' Club Since 1891. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ Alpsten, Ellen (2020-05-06). "Novelist Ellen Alpsten on why the real Russia is just as beguiling as she'd imagined". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ Times, The Sunday. "Lockdown literature: new novels of note, from historical to foreign fiction". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ Senior, Antonia. "The best new historical fiction for July 2021 — a game of love in the court of James I". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "The Other Elizabeth: Ferret Face vs Marilyn Monroe". Russian Roulette Magazine. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "Travels Through Time: Ellen Alpsten: The Tsarinas and Peter the Great (1709) no Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts (in português). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ Ages, The Other Half: The History of Women Through the. "CHAT: Ellen Alpsten on The Tsarina's Daughter – The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages – Podcast". Podtail. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "Versus History Podcast: Tsarina & The Tsarina's Daughter with Ellen Alpsten on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ "The Tsarinas and Peter the Great (1709) | Travels Through Time". Free History Podcasts | Travels Through Time. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ ELLEN ALPSTEN: The Tsarina's Daughter on The WCCS!, 2021-07-06, retrieved 2022-01-05
- ↑ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ↑ 229: Ellen Alpsten, Claire Entwhistle & CKBK, 2021-07-23, retrieved 2022-01-05
- ↑ "Ellen Alpsten", Wikipedia (in Deutsch), 2021-10-17, retrieved 2022-01-05
