Louise Doughty (born 4 September 1963, Melton Mowbray) is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course.

In 2006 Doughty contributed a weekly column to the Daily Telegraph inviting readers to write A Novel in a Year and the following year a weekly column on the life of a writer entitled "A Writer's Year".

Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

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