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.

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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,[1] Gardner returned to the LSE as a Professor of Anthropology.[2]

Bibliography

• Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village (1991)
• Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (2001)
• Losing Gemma (2002)
• Age, narrative and migration: the life course and life histories of Bengali elders in London (2002)
• The Mermaid's Purse (2003)
• Keefer's Rules (2006)
• Hidden (2006)
• Faker (2008)
• Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh (2012)

References

External links

• Katy Gardner at Sussex University's website
• Information about Katy Gardner's books

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