Liz Jensen

Author

1959 –

50

Who is Liz Jensen?

Liz Jensen is an English novelist.

Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She first worked as a journalist in the Far East, and then for the BBC as a TV and Radio producer. She then worked as a sculptor in France, where she wrote her first novel, Egg Dancing, returning to London to write Ark Baby, The Paper Eater, and War Crimes for the Home

Her next novel, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, was being produced as a movie by Anthony Minghella shortly before his death.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.

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Born
1959
Nationality
  • England
Education
  • Somerville College, Oxford

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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