Liz Jensen
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Liz Jensen is an English novelist.
Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She first worked as a journalist in the Far East, and then for the BBC as a TV and Radio producer. She then worked as a sculptor in France, where she wrote her first novel, Egg Dancing (1995), returning to London to write Ark Baby (1998), The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002)
Her next novel, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, was being produced as a movie by Anthony Minghella
shortly before his death.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 2005.
Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She first worked as a journalist in the Far East, and then for the BBC as a TV and Radio producer. She then worked as a sculptor in France, where she wrote her first novel, Egg Dancing (1995), returning to London to write Ark Baby (1998), The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002)
Her next novel, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, was being produced as a movie by Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....
shortly before his death.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...
in 2005.
Novels
- Egg Dancing (1995)
- Ark Baby (1997)
- Paper Eater (2000)
- War Crimes for the Home (2002)
- The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004)
- My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time: A Novel (2006)
- The Rapture (2009)
External links
- Liz Jensen's Home Page
- The Secret of writing a novel in The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- Review of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax in The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
- Review of My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time in The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
- The Ninth Life of Louis Drax at Tin House Books ISBN 1582344574