Biography
Novel-in-progress Leipzig is set in Communist East Germany
Fiona Rintoul was born in Glasgow and brought up in East Kilbride. After studying modern languages at St Andrews University, she taught English for a time at the Tianjin Institute of Light Industry in China. She later worked in publishing and journalism in London. She now lives in Glasgow where she works as a writer and freelance journalist.
As a jounalist, Fiona writes mainly about finance, particularly European issues. She is a past participant in the IJP George Weidenfeld British-German Journalists Bursary Programme.
Fiona's fiction includes short stories and poetry. She is currently finishing her first novel. Entitled Leipzig, it is set in eighties Communist East Germany.
In 2008 Fiona won the first Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing. In 2009 she won the Sceptre Prize.