Liardet, Frances
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Name (Latin)
Liardet, Frances
Date of birth
1962-12-10
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Frances Liardet has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford before traveling to Cairo, where she translated modern Egyptian novelists including Nobel-prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and Edwar al-Kharrat. She currently lives in Somerset, England, and helps to run a summer writing session called Bootcamp, where local writers get together to share work and constructive criticism. Her first novel, The Game, won a Betty Trask Award. ( (Penguin Random House website, viewed September 24, 2018) )
- The game, 1994:t.p. (Frances Liardet) cover flap (b. 1962)
- Girls of Alexandria, 1990:t.p. (Frances Liardet) jkt. (studied Arabic at Oxford; she resides in Oxford)
- Her The game, 1944:t.p. (Frances Liardet) cover flap (b. 1962)
Wikipedia description:
Frances E. Liardet (born 10 December 1962) is a writer and translator of Arabic literature. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has translated several book-length works, including two books by the modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat and one by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Liardet's first novel, The Game, was chosen as one of the winners of Betty Trask Award in 1994. Her second novel, We Must Be Brave, was published in 2019. She published Think of Me in 2022.
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