Jane Rogers (born 21 July 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best known for her novels Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home. In 1994 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Early life

Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School, a private girls school in Oxford. She then matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English. She graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1974. She went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Leicester in 1976.[1]

She now lives in Banbury.

Career

Her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

In November 2015, her adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It starred Holliday Grainger as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain.[2]

Bibliography

  • Separate Tracks (1983, Faber)
  • Her Living Image (1984, Faber)
  • The Ice is Singing (1987, Faber)
  • Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1991, Faber)
  • Promised Lands (1995, Faber)
  • Island (1999, Little Brown)
  • The Voyage Home (2004, Little Brown)
  • The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011, Sandstone)
  • Conrad and Eleanor (2016, Faber)

Prizes and honours

Honors

Literary awards

Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
1985 Her Living Image Somerset Maugham Award Won
1996 Promised Lands Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted
2000 Island Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted
2011 The Testament of Jessie Lamb Kitschies Red Tentacle (Novel) Finalist
Man Booker Prize Longlisted
2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award Won
2013 Hitting Trees with Sticks Edge Hill Short Story Prize Shortlisted
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Longlisted

References

  1. ^ "ROGERS, Prof. Jane Rosalind". Who's Who 2014. A & C Black. December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 14 October 2024.


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