Helen Fielding
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Helen Fielding is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist, best known as the creator of Bridget Jones. Helen’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in Africa, and she started writing Bridget as an anonymous column in the Independent newspaper . This turned into an unexpected hit, leading to four globally bestselling Bridget Jones novels, translated into over forty languages and four Bridget Jones movies. Helen has been executive producer and screenwriter on all four. The recently released Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy broke box office records on its opening weekend.
Fielding has continued to work for British newspapers and on documentaries including the Thames TV Documentary Where Hunger is a Weapon about the war in South Sudan.
In 2024 the New York Times selected Bridget Jones’s Diary as one of the twenty-two funniest novels since Catch 22 and, in 2016 the BBC’s Woman’s Hour chose Bridget Jones as one of the seven women who have most influenced female culture over the last seven decades – despite not actually being a real person.
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