Mariella Frostrup
For Choice Brits Mariella Frostrup will introduce Pure
Mariella Frostrup was born in Oslo in the sixties and moved as a child to Kilmacanogue, a small village outside Dublin. After the death of her father, then foreign editor of the Irish Times, in 1977, Mariella left Ireland to move to London where she lives today. After taking creative writing courses, and with stints working as both receptionist and waitress, she moved on to working in the Rolling Stones’ mobile recording studio and then public relations for Phonogram Records.
She is now renowned as a journalist and critic, and in recent years has worked on a variety of television programmes including regularly fronting arts shows and working on the BBC’s acclaimed Panorama. She also writes for The Guardian and The Observer amongst others, with a regular 'problem' column in The Observer Magazine, and has sat on numerous juries across film, theatre and literature including the London Film Festival, the Orange Prize, the Olivier Theatre Awards and the Booker Prize.
Read about Mariella's top ten book choices here.
