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Jane Thynne (born 5 April 1961) is a British
novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...
,
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...
and broadcaster.


Biography

Jane Thynne was born in
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on 5 April 1961. She attended
Lady Eleanor Holles School Lady Eleanor Holles School (often abbreviated to LEH or LEHS) is an independent day school for girls in Hampton, London. It consists of a small junior school and a larger senior school, which operate from different buildings on the same site. It ...
in
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. She read
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at St Anne's College, Oxford, gaining a BA degree. She was married to fellow novelist
Philip Kerr Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a British author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers. Early life Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an enginee ...
until his death in 2018, and they had three children together.


Career

Thynne has worked as a journalist for the
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The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...
'', and ''
The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...
'', for which she was the radio critic from October 2008 to November 2011. She has been a panelist on the
BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
literary panel game '' The Write Stuff'' on many occasions. Thynne was a member of the judging panel for the Oldie of the Year award in 2010, won by
Joanna Lumley Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom ''Absolutely Fabulous'' (1992 ...
, and in 2011, won by
Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film pr ...
. She was also a judge for the Best Online Only Audio Drama award of the first
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in 2012, won by
Tim Fountain Tim Fountain (born 23 December 1967) is a British writer. Early life Fountain was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. An only child, he was brought up in a pub in the village of West Ardsley, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Batley Grammar ...
for ''Rock''. Her first novel, ''Patrimony'', was published in 1997. This was followed by ''The Shell House'' (1999), ''The Weighing of the Heart'' (2010) and ''Black Roses''
a
Woman's Hour ''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946. History Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by ...
discussion about Nazi women depicted in new novels by Jane Thynne and Meike Ziervogel (2013).


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* * (includes a picture of Thynne and her daughter) * * 1961 births Living people Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford English women journalists English women novelists People educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School Radio critics 21st-century English novelists English journalists 21st-century English women writers English women non-fiction writers {{England-novelist-stub