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Michèle
Roberts

Years: 2004

Michèle Roberts, half-English and half-French, was born in 1949. She is the author of eleven novels: A Piece of the Night (1978), The Visitation (1983), The Wild Girl (1984), The Book of Mrs. Noah (1987), In the Red Kitchen (1990), Daughters of the House (1992), Flesh and Blood (1994), Impossible Saints (1997), Fair Exchange (1999), The Looking Glass (2000) and, most recently, The Mistressclass (2003). She has also published short story collections, During Mother’s Absence (1993) and Playing Sardines (2003), three books of poetry including All the Selves I Was: Selected Poems 1986-1994 (1995), and a book of essays, On Food, Sex and God: On Inspiration and Writing (1998). Daughters of the House was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1993. She is a regular book reviewer and broadcaster, and teaches the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. In December 2001 she was appointed Chevalier de l’Order des Arts at des Lettres by the French Government. A staunch republican, she refused an OBE in 2003.

Michèle Roberts, half-English and half-French, was born in 1949. She is the author of eleven novels: A Piece of the Night (1978), The Visitation (1983), The Wild Girl (1984), The Book of Mrs. Noah (1987), In the Red Kitchen (1990), Daughters of the House (1992), Flesh and Blood (1994), Impossible Saints (1997), Fair Exchange (1999), The Looking Glass (2000) and, most recently, The Mistressclass (2003). She has also published short story collections, During Mother’s Absence (1993) and Playing Sardines (2003), three books of poetry including All the Selves I Was: Selected Poems 1986-1994 (1995), and a book of essays, On Food, Sex and God: On Inspiration and Writing (1998). Daughters of the House was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1993. She is a regular book reviewer and broadcaster, and teaches the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. In December 2001 she was appointed Chevalier de l’Order des Arts at des Lettres by the French Government. A staunch republican, she refused an OBE in 2003.

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