珀拉·霍金斯

Paula Hawkins

生卒: 1972 –
国籍: 英国
外文名: Paula Hawkins

照片：Arild Vågen，CC BY-SA 4.0，来自维基共享资源「Paula Hawkins Göteborg Book Fair 2015.jpg」（经缩小）。

生平与创作

宝拉·霍金斯（英语：Paula Hawkins，1972年8月26日—），在津巴布韦出生的作家，从事15年的记者生涯，知名作品为《列车上的女孩》。

生平

宝拉·霍金斯在津巴布韦出生。1989年移居英国伦敦，后在法国巴黎、比利时布鲁塞尔、英国牛津就读政治、哲学和经济学，并在牛津大学毕业。2015年，首度以真名宝拉·霍金斯发表心理惊悚小说《列车上的女孩》而名声大噪，随后更被改编为同名电影。2017年，霍金斯再推第二部心理惊悚新作《潜入水中》。

霍金斯以笔名艾米·西尔弗（Amy Silver）发表4部女性都会小说。她在写作列车上的女孩时，向父亲借了一笔钱，灵感来自17岁在伦敦地铁通勤的经验，车窗外快速飘过的人物，小说的架构早有构思，她却在写到一半时面临破产，只好委托出版经纪人出售版权，支付版税应急。在亚马逊电子书出版一半的书稿，没想到大受欢迎，故事首创的“列车观点”写法，也引起文坛一阵感叹。

以上文字摘自维基百科「寶拉·霍金斯」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。

中文维基百科的条目比较短，下面附上英文维基百科的内容（英文原文）：

Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a Rhodesian/Zimbabwean-British author best known for her top-selling psychological thriller novel The Girl on the Train (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. Hawkins' second thriller novel, Into the Water, was released in 2017.

Life and career

Hawkins was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe (known at the time as Salisbury, Rhodesia), the daughter of Anthony "Tony" Hawkins and his wife Glynne. Her father was an economics professor and financial journalist. Before moving to London in 1989 aged 17, Hawkins attended Arundel School, Harare, Zimbabwe then studied for her A-Levels at Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington, West London. Hawkins read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, University of Oxford. She worked as a journalist for The Times, reporting on business. She then worked for a number of publications on a freelance basis, and wrote a financial-advice book for women, The Money Goddess.

Around 2009, Hawkins began to write romantic comedy fiction under the alias Amy Silver, writing four novels including Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista.

She did not achieve a commercial breakthrough until she challenged herself to write a darker, more serious story. Her best-selling novel The Girl on the Train (2015) is a complex thriller, with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. The novel took her six months, writing full-time, to complete, at a time when she was in a difficult financial situation and had to borrow from her father. The novel was adapted into a film in 2016. In November 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Paula's second thriller Into The Water was published in May 2017 and went on to become a Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. Her novel A Slow Fire Burning was published on 31 August 2021.