Stephen Hudson

Stephen Hudson was born in Yorkshire. That should make him a cynical, miserly old curmudgeon, but he’s the first one to deny it. And perhaps the only one.

He spent his early years in Edinburgh, Scotland. After university, he taught English in France before becoming a college tutor in England. He harboured ambitions of a career in languages and became a translator and interpreter in the legal, medical and commercial sectors.

His love of literature inspired his first attempts at writing. ‘Mister French’ was conceived as a play to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the French playwright Molière. 2022 was a difficult time for the theatre, thanks to Covid lockdowns, so his publishers encouraged him to present the work as a short novel instead. He followed it with ‘The Body In The Graveyard,’ a satire on the ‘cosy crime’ or ‘whodunit’ genre.

His most recent work is collection of comic short stories published as ‘The Applause Was Edited Out.’ It draws in part on his years as an A Level French teacher. He’s left the classroom behind him now and spends as much time as he can with his wife in Normandy.