Hieroglyphics and Other Stories

Anne Donovan grew up in Coatbridge, a town in North Lanarkshire. She is best known for her first novel, the highly successful Buddha Da.

After university, Donovan became an English teacher, a post that she gave up in order to concentrate full-time on her writing. She then went on to win the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Award in 1997.

Donovan has had prize-winning short stories published in various anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio, she has also written for the stage and radio. Her first published work, Hieroglyphics and Other Stories – a collection of short stories – was published by Canongate in 2001.

Anne Donovan has started work on the screenplay for Buddha Da since Wasted Talent optioned it, with the hope of it being turned into a film. Her second novel Being Emily was published in 2008.