Jane Thynne (born 5 April 1961) is a British
novelist
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,
journalist
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Roles
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and broadcaster.
Biography
Jane Thynne was born in
Venezuela
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on 5 April 1961. She attended
Lady Eleanor Holles School in
London
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. She read
English at
St Anne's College, Oxford
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, 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
BBC
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, ''
The Sunday Times
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'', ''
The Daily Telegraph
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'', and ''
The Independent
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'', for which she was the radio critic from October 2008 to November 2011.
She has been a panelist on the
BBC Radio 4
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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
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, and in 2011, won by
Barry Humphries
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. She was also a judge for the Best Online Only Audio Drama award of the first
BBC Audio Drama Awards
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in 2012, won by
Tim Fountain 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
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History
The first BBC programme for women was the programme cal ...
discussion about Nazi women depicted in new novels by Jane Thynne and Meike Ziervogel (2013).
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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
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