Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan (1901-1968) was a British writer and artist. She published six novels under her married name Helen Ferguson between 1929 and 1937; in 1940 she began publishing under the name Anna Kavan (one of her previous fictional characters) and later took the name as her own. Her writing was often innovative and experimental, influenced by her severe depression and long-term heroin addiction. Other significant writers including Brian Aldiss, J.G.Ballard, Doris Lessing, Anaïs Nin and Jean Rhys have admired Anna Kavan's distinctive style, and she continues to inspire readers, writers and artists today.
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Remembering Anna Kavan
Rose Knox-Peebles (née Latch) is a writer, art collector and model. Her mother was one of Anna Kavan's oldest friends. Rose and Anna developed their own close friendship and in this personal tribute, Rose evokes the atmosphere of their relationship in which 'everything was normal, everything was strange': Remembering Anna