Name Tania Glyde Role Novelist | Books Clever Girl, Junk DNA | |
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Tania Glyde is a British novelist fiction writer and journalist, author of two novels (Clever Girl, 1995, and Junk DNA, 2000) and short stories.
Glyde attended Oakham School in Rutland, before studying at Magdalen College, Oxford. She was the sex columnist for Time Out and also wrote for the Independent on Sunday Talk of the Town magazine.
A strong theme in her fiction and journalism is the female predicament, particularly with respect to sex, power and female dissolution.
Her autobiographical memoir, Cleaning Up – How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived, was published in January 2008.
Tania Glyde was interviewed at a literary event connected with the paperback edition of Cleaning Up – How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived in London on 2 April 2009. She can be heard answering questions at the event hosted by Piers Gibbon and the recording starts with him reading some extracts from the book.