Elizabeth Gowing
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Elizabeth Gowing | |
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| Occupation | Charity work |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Travel, non-fiction |
| Partner | Robert Wilton |
Elizabeth Gowing is a British-Kosovan teacher, writer, and activist.
Elizabeth Gowing was educated at and Magdalen College, Oxford.[1] She gained her teaching qualification at the Institute of Education in London.[1] She then taught in inner-city state sector primary schools in the London boroughs of Hackney, Islington, and Lambeth.[1]
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In 2006 she went to live in Kosovo,[1] where her partner Robert Wilton had been invited as an advisor to the Prime Minister Agim Çeku.[2]
She translated from Albanian to English the biography of Yugoslavia's longest-held political prisoner, Adem Demaçi,[3] as well as the memoirs of the Ottoman and Albanian politician Hasan Prishtina.[4] She won the Independent on Sunday and Bradt Travel Writing Competition in 2014.[5]