Bee Rowlatt is a writer and journalist. Her current book, In Search of Mary is inspired by the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. The best-selling Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (Penguin) has been dramatised by the BBC, and translated into numerous languages. Bee won the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust award to complete the travels for In Search of Mary.
Bee contributed to Virago's Fifty Shades of Feminism, and has clocked over two decades at BBC World Service (now freelance). She speaks fluent Spanish and has a research background in Latin America. She's written for BBC Online, The Telegraph, The Independent, Grazia, Die Welt, The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail, and appears regularly on TV and radio.
Bee’s public speaking appearances include the Jaipur Literature Festival, 5x15, the Times Literary Festival, Hay Festivals in Cartagena and Xalapa, Southbank WOW festival, and British Council literary events in Iraq, Norway, Palestine and Russia.
She chairs a campaign to memorialise Wollstonecraft, has four kids, and is based in New Delhi.
Bee Rowlatt is participant of the seminar "British Literature Today", organised by the British Council in partnership with the Leo Tolstoy estate museum Yasnaya Polyana from 12 to 15 July 2017 at Yasnaya polyana.