About Caroline Walton

ABOUT CAROLINE WALTON

Caroline was born in London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School and the LSE. While taking her economics degree she became fascinated by Russia and studied the language.

When the Soviet system collapsed she moved into a communal flat by the Volga and wrote about the world of mystics and mafiamen she found there. Little Tenement on the Volga was published by Garrett County Press in the US and made the Harvard reading list.

Her next book was the shattering true life story of Soviet society through the eyes of a vagabond - Ivan Petrov-Russia through a Shot Glass.

In 1999 she spent a summer in St Petersburg talking to survivors of the siege of Leningrad. The resulting novel The Voice of Leningrad, won the New London Writers Award.

She also writes and translates memoirs for the Russian emigre community. These are not only treasured by family and friends but are also valuable historical documents. Her memoir Yaffa, commissioned by the Michael Abram foundation, has been ordered by the British Library and Jewish Museums around the world.

Caroline is married to Andrei, a Russian-Ukrainian of Cossack descent, who runs Waltons Construction Ltd, a building company that specialises in high-end refurbishment.

They love gathering mushrooms in the wild; their dream is to build a dacha at Balaklava on the Crimean coast.

Caroline's literary agent is the fabulous Peter Buckman of Ampersand www.theampersandagency.co.uk (agent for Slumdog Millionaire) His daughter Jessica represents foreign rights sales of her books.

Caroline Walton is a member of :
The UK Society of Authors www.societyofauthors.org
The Translators Association (affiliated to the Society of Authors)

And a supporter of The Plain English Campaign