![]() ![]() In 2003, Hearts of Gold was adapted by BBC Wales as a two-part drama, directed by Richard Laxton and co-written by Matthew Baylis. It was a 2008 finalist for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Book of the Year. ![]() and is recommended by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust for young people wanting to learn about the Holocaust. Her book One last Summer is based on war-time diaries kept by her mother and maternal grandmother. Īs a comprehensive school teacher, she taught English and drama to A level in schools in Swansea and West Glamorgan. Collier was born there in 1948 and grew up in the town. They were married in Pontypridd in July 1947. Her father, Glyn Jones, was a Welsh Guardsman serving in Germany when he met Gerda. Early life Ĭollier is of East Prussian descent, with her mother, Gerda Salewski, born in Allenstein, East Prussia, in 1926. John (crime novels), Katherine Hardy (novelisations of television programmes) and Caro French (modern fiction). She also writes under the pen names Katherine John / K. Karen Watkins (née Jones, born 1948), writing as Catrin Collier, is a Welsh novelist known for her historical works, especially those in the Hearts of Gold series, set in her home town of Pontypridd between 19, the first of which was adapted as a BBC drama in 2003. ![]()
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