Female author: CAITLIN MORAN (1975)

WHO IS SHE?

Caitlin Moran (United Kingdom, 1975) is a British author and journalist known for her weekly columns in the middle of "The Times" (one for Saturday magazine, one for television program reviews and the column "Celebrity Watch") With a peculiar childhood in Wolverhampton in which she emphasizes her schooling at home and her consideration as hippies, Caitlin has always known that she wanted to be a writer. After winning a contest for young readers at age 13, at age 15 she won the Young Reporter of the Year award given by "The Observer". Her career as a journalist began at age 16 in "Melody Maker" and at that time she wrote a novel called The Chronicles of Narmo. Since then, Caitlin has also been a television host and screenwriter for the series Raised by Wolves (2013) without neglecting her two passions, journalism and writing, and cultivating her feminist ideology in parallel. In this way, in April 2014 she was named one of the most influential women in Britain, in the list of "Woman's Hour" of the BBC.

WHAT HAS SHE WRITTEN?

The majority of his productions are novels or essays:

• The Chronicles of Narmo (1992): is a novel inspired by the fact of having received an education at home.
• How to Be a Woman (2012): her semi-autobiographical novel talks about her adolescence in Wolverhampton and her early years in London.
• Moranthology (2012): an essay on cultural, social and political issues.
• How to build a girl (2014): her fictional novel about the growth process of a teenager, Johanna Morrigan, who seeks to find herself in the 90s.
• Moranifesto (2016): another essay on current affairs and the pressing and diverse topics such as the oaths of the eighties, the benefits, the internships and why the Internet is like a drunk child.
• How to be famous (2018): the second part of How to build a girl, follows the story of Johanna Morrigan during the 90s in the world of fame.

WHAT HAS SHE SAID?

“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”

― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.”

― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.”

― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

WHY SHOULD WE NOT FORGET HER AND HER WORK?

Caitlin is a contemporary feminist writer who writes with humor, wit and shamelessness. Her narrative and essays and journalistic columns deal with everyday, political, economic, social issues... with an ironic tone and from a very personal perspective. Caitlin has managed to put the focus on sexuality, food, beauty, family, relationships, love, abortion ... discarding taboos and giving them visibility from platforms as varied as the media in which she publishes or Twitter.

-R.