Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer, who has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ...
and won several other literary prizes.
Early life
Azzopardi was born in
Cardiff to a
Maltese
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* Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta
* Maltese alphabet
* Maltese cuisine
* Maltese culture
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father and a Welsh mother.
She studied creative writing at the
University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an
MA in Film and Television studies from the
University of Derby.
Career
Azzopardi's novel ''The Hiding Place'', is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ...
in 2000.
It also won the
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, ''Remember Me'', was shortlisted for the
Wales Book of the Year. "Winterton Blue" was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories and performs readings for
BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in
Norwich, in the east of
England.
Bibliography
*''
The Hiding Place'',
Picador, 2000
*''Remember Me'',
Picador, 2003
*''Winterton Blue'',
Grove Press
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, 2007
*''The Song House'',
Picador, 2010 ()
References
External links
Profile at www.contemporarywriters.comProfile at Writers of Wales Database
1961 births
Living people
20th-century Welsh novelists
21st-century Welsh novelists
20th-century Welsh women writers
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Academics of the University of East Anglia
Alumni of the University of Derby
Welsh women novelists
Writers from Cardiff
Anglo-Welsh novelists
British people of Maltese descent
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