She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Wolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Two of her fictions have been adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987). She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son.Īs well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia. She then explored the United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German.

She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970). In 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she 'learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised.' She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972).

She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature. She began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother.

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