Michèle Roberts
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Biography
Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly-acclaimed Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2013. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love. Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
Publications
Non-Fiction
Following the success of French Cooking for One, this new cookbook by Michèle Roberts, is about friendship as much as it is about preparing a French dinner for two.
A unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is a personal and quirky take on Édouard de Pomiane’s classic.
A memoir
Essays
Fiction
A lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery. Denis knows his mother kept things from him. His godmother, Clemence, knows the truth. In rich, sensuous prose, Roberts interweaves Denis’s search for answers with Clemence’s memories of the time she spent working for Matisse.
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2013
Winner of the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Poetry
(with Michelene Wandor and Judith Kazantzis)
Other
Short Stories
Radio 4 Book of the Week
Short Stories
Short Stories
Short Stories
