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Catherine Czerkawska

CATHERINE CZERKAWSKA  

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    PFD  


Catherine Czerkawska has written poems, novels, short stories and plays both for radio and for the stage including Quartz and Wormwood, about the Chernobyl disaster, for the Traverse Theatre in edinburgh, as well as the Price of a Fish Supper and Burns on the Solway for the Oran Mor, Glasgow. Fish Supper was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during 2007. Her novel the Curiosity Cabinet,(Polygon 2005) was one of three finalists for the Dundee Book Prize, and her non fiction book, God's Islanders, about the history and landscape of Gigha, was published in hardback by Birlinn in November 2006 She is currently working on two new stage plays: the Physic Garden, and the Silk Weaver, as well as a new novel called the Fifth Mary. Catherine lives in rural South ayrshire with her artist husband Alan Lees with whom she also runs a small online business dealing in antique textiles, Scottish curios and artworks. Catherine's website is at www.wordarts.co.uk but she has also posted several playscripts on her blog at http://wordarts.blogspot.com and will continue to post plays and stories on this site.

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 Burns On the Solway         Devil And Mary Lamont, The / Bonnie Blue Hen         Heroes And Others         Price Of A Fish Supper, The         Quartz         Survival Games         Wormwood

Burns On the Solway

Synopsis:
about the last few weeks in the life of poet Robert Burns

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a Play, a Pie and a Pint season

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Devil And Mary Lamont, The / Bonnie Blue Hen

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Borderline Community theatre    1995

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Heroes And Others

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Scottish theatre Company Production

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Price Of A Fish Supper, The

Price Of A Fish Supper, The
about the demise of the Scottish fishing industry, and the personal tragedy of one ex-fisherman

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Quartz

Synopsis:
about themes of magic and religion

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Traverse Publishing, 2000   -

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Survival Games

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-    1990

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10577/73

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Wormwood

Synopsis:
depicts a family caught up in the Chernobyl disaster

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in Scotland Plays, Nick Hern Books, London
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