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Liz Jensen (born 1959) is an English novelist.

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)

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

External links

• Liz Jensen's Home Page
• The secret of writing a novel, article written by Jensen in The Guardian
• Review of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax in The Independent
• Review of My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time in The Independent
• The Ninth Life of Louis Drax at Tin House Books ISBN 1-58234-457-4
• The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen: a Critical Reading, by Helen E. Mundler. Camden House, New York, 13 September 2016.

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