请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Jane Rogers
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Bibliography

  4. Prizes and honours

  5. References

  6. External links

{{about|the novelist|the actress|Jane A. Rogers|the sheriff|Jane Margaret Rogers}}{{Infobox writer
| name = Jane Rogers
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| pseudonym =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|7|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Novelist
| nationality = British
| period =
| genre =
| subject =
| movement =
| debut_works =
| influences =
| influenced =
| signature =
| website =
| footnotes =
}}

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, an independent 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 Romola Garai as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain.

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

  • 1994 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
  • 2011 – Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (for The Testament of Jessie Lamb)
  • 2011 – Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (for The Testament of Jessie Lamb)

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=ROGERS, Prof. Jane Rosalind|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U258505|website=Who's Who 2014|publisher=A & C Black|accessdate=21 July 2014|date=December 2013}}

External links

{{wikiquote}}
  • {{IMDb name|1174912|Jane Rogers}}
  • BBC radio plays at ukonline
{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Jane}}{{UK-novelist-stub}}

6 : 1952 births|Living people|20th-century English novelists|Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature|People educated at Oxford High School, England|Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/13 12:55:22