Jane Rogers (novelist)
Jane Rogers | |
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Born | London, England | 21 July 1952
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | British |
Jane Rogers (born 21 July 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best known for her novels Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home. In 1994 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Early life
[edit]Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School, a private girls school in Oxford. She then matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English. She graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1974. She went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Leicester in 1976.[1]
She now lives in Banbury.
Career
[edit]Her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
In November 2015, her adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It starred Romola Garai as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain.
Bibliography
[edit]- Separate Tracks (1983, Faber)
- Her Living Image (1984, Faber)
- The Ice is Singing (1987, Faber)
- Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1991, Faber)
- Promised Lands (1995, Faber)
- Island (1999, Little Brown)
- The Voyage Home (2004, Little Brown)
- The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011, Sandstone)
- Conrad and Eleanor (2016, Faber)
Prizes and honours
[edit]- 1985 - Won Somerset Maugham Award Somerset Maugham Award (for Her Living Image, published 1984)
- 1994 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- 2011 – Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (for The Testament of Jessie Lamb)
- 2011 – Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (for The Testament of Jessie Lamb)
References
[edit]- ^ "ROGERS, Prof. Jane Rosalind". Who's Who 2014. A & C Black. December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
External links
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