Michèle Roberts
Michèle Roberts is the author of 14 highly acclaimed novels, including The Mistressclass (2004) and Daughters of the House (1992), which was shortlisted for the 1992 Man Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award. She has also published short stories, most recently collected in Playing Sardines (2001), and poetry. Michéle will be reading from her new collection, Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, to be published this June.
Born 20 minutes after her twin sister Marguerite, to a French mother and an English father, Michele grew up in London, with summer holidays spent at her French grandparents house in Normandy. Michèle now lives between London and the Mayenne, France, moving back and forth between the two. She also spends time at the University of East Anglia, where she is Professor of Creative Writing. She recently turned down an OBE but was honoured to be made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
In addition to writing and teaching, Michèle is a judge for literary prizes, has presented radio arts programmes such as BBC Radio 3’s Night Waves and has chaired the British Council’s Literature Advisory Committee. She has travelled abroad extensively with other writers on tours organised by the British Council.
“Michèle Roberts is one of those writers descended perhaps as much from Monet and Debussy as Virginia Woolf or Keats… To read a book by her is to savour colour, sound, taste, texture and touch as never before.”
The Times
“One of Britain’s best novelists”
Independent on Sunday
“She writes with power and conviction”
The Observer
Links:
- Interview with Michèle Roberts in the Guardian
- Read Michèle Roberts’ Food Column at The New Statesman
