Liz Jensen

Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother.[1] She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] She first worked as a radio journalist in Taiwan, and then for the BBC as a TV and radio producer.[3] 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)

Liz Jensen (born 1959) is an English novelist.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.[4]

Her novel The Ninth Life of Louis Drax was adapted into a Canadian film in 2016.

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)
  • The Uninvited (2012)

References
  1. "Liz Jensen". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  2. "The Rapture - Liz Jensen". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. "Gloucestershire Festivals - Anthony Minghella and Liz Jensen". BBC. 23 October 2004. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  4. "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
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