Biography
In May 2008, Fiona Rintoul won the first Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing
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 freelance journalist and is a student on the Creative Writing MLitt at Glasgow University.
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 working on her first novel. Entitled Leipzig, it is set in eighties Communist East Germany. The novel-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2007 Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year Competition and in 2008 Fiona won the first Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing.