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. 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,Sussex Anthropologist, 4:1, Autumn 2013, p. 1. Gardner returned to the LSE as a professor of anthropology."Professor Katy Gardner", LSE Anthropology She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.
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