Christina Koning

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Christina Koning is a novelist and short story writer, who has reviewed extensively for the UK national press. Koning was born in Kuala Belait, Brunei, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. She is currently Paperbacks Editor for The Times.

Her first novel, A Mild Suicide, was published by Lime Tree in 1992. Her most recent novel is Fabulous Time (Viking), which won a Society of Authors Traveling Scholarship; her second novel, Undiscovered Country (Penguin), won the Encore Award for fiction and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. For the past three years, she has taught creative writing courses at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London.