Rose Tremain

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Rose Tremain born in 1943 in London, is an author and academic.

Contents 1 Life 2 Writing 3 Selected bibliography 3.1 Short story collections 3.2 For children 4 References 5 External link

Life

Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2 in London and attended Crofton Grange School from 1954 to '61; the Sorbonne from '61-'62; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965 where she then taught creative writing from 1988 to 1995.

She married Jon Tremain in 1971 and they had one daughter, Eleanor, born 1972. Eleanor became an actress. The marriage lasted about five years. Her second marriage to theatre director Jonathan Dudley in 1982 lasted about nine years; and she has been with Richard Holmes since 1992. She lives in East Anglia.

Writing

Her influences include William Golding author of Lord of the Flies, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel, 100 Years of Solitude and the magical realism style.

Her novel Music and Silence won the best novel in the 1999 Whitbread Awards. She is an historical novelist who approaches her subjects "from unexpected angles, concentrating her attention on unglamorous outsiders."^[1]

Tremain has judged the Booker prize twice, in 1988 and 2000 though she has missed on being nominated herself. She has also written for radio.

Selected bibliography

• Sadler's Birthday (1976), ISBN 0-356-08387-X
• Letter to Sister Benedicta (1978), ISBN 0-354-04353-6
• The Cupboard (1981), ISBN 0-354-04769-8
• Journey to the Volcano (1985), ISBN 0-241-11651-1
• The Swimming Pool Season (1985), ISBN 0-241-11496-9
• Restoration (1989), ISBN 0-241-12695-9 (and the screenplay for the 1995 film)
• Sacred Country (1992), ISBN 1-85619-118-4
• The Way I Found Her (1997), ISBN 1-85619-409-4
• Music and Silence (1999), ISBN 1-86056-027-X
• The Colour (2003), ISBN 0-7011-7296-7

Short story collections

• The Colonel's Daughter and other stories 1983
  
• The Garden of the Villa Mollini and other stories 1987
  
• Evangelista's Fan and other stories 1994

For children

• Journey to the Volcano '85

References

• [1]

External link

• An article in The Guardian

Persondata
NAME	Tremain, Rose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Writer, academic
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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