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Liz Jensen (born 1959) is an English
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living in
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Biography

Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford. She first worked as a
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in Hong Kong Taiwan, and then for the BBC as a TV and radio producer. She then worked as a sculptor and freelance writer 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 then spent ten years as a
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and
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for the
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in the UK. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005. She is also a founder member of
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's Writers Rebel. Her fifth novel was adapted into a film version, ''
The 9th Life of Louis Drax ''The 9th Life of Louis Drax'' is a 2016 supernatural thriller film directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Julian Wadham, Jane McGregor, Barbara Hershey, and Aaron Paul. It ...
'', by Alexandre Aja in 2016. Her 2009 novel, ''The Rapture'', is to be adapted into a five-part
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drama series starring
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.


Personal life

Jensen is married to the Danish writer
Carsten Jensen Carsten Jensen (born 24 July 1952, Marstal, Denmark) is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, ''Politiken.'' His novels, including ''I Have Seen the World Begin'' (199 ...
. They have two children. Her son
Raphaël Coleman Raphaël Coleman (30 September 1994 – 6 February 2020) was an English climate change activist and former actor. Early life Raphäel Coleman was born in Wandsworth, England in September 1994. Career As a child, Coleman acted in several fil ...
, a
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-turned-climate change activist, died at the age of 25 from heart failure in 2020.


Novels

* ''Egg Dancing'' (1995) * ''Ark Baby'' (1998) * ''Paper Eater'' (2000) * ''War Crimes for the Home'' (2002) * ''The Ninth Life of Louis Drax'' (2004) * ''My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time'' (2006) * ''The Rapture'' (2009) * ''The Uninvited'' (2012)


References


External links


Liz Jensen's Home Page


article written by Jensen in
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

Review of ''The Ninth Life of Louis Drax''
in
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Review of ''My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time''
in
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''The Ninth Life of Louis Drax''
at
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* ''The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen: a Critical Reading'', by Helen E. Mundler. Camden House, New York, 13 September 2016. 1959 births People from Oxfordshire English women novelists Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature English people of Moroccan descent Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford {{England-novelist-stub