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Jane Rogers

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Jane Rogers

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1952-07-21 (London, England)
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London → Oxford → Cambridge → Banbury

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Editor, Scriptwriter, Lecturer, Teacher
Active Years
1983-2024
Affiliations
Royal Society of Literature
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Education

Oxford High School
Country: United Kingdom
Private girls school
New Hall, Cambridge
Faculty of English / English
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Period: 1970-1974
Year of Graduation: 1974
Country: United Kingdom
University of Leicester
Degree: Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Year of Graduation: 1976
Country: United Kingdom
PGCE

Awards

Somerset Maugham Award
1985
Work: Her Living Image
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: Won
Women's Prize for Fiction
1996
Work: Promised Lands
Result: Longlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction
2000
Work: Island
Result: Longlisted
Man Booker Prize
2011
Work: The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Result: Longlisted
Kitschies
2011
Work: The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Category: Red Tentacle (Novel)
Result: Finalist
Arthur C. Clarke Award
2012
Work: The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Result: Won
Edge Hill Short Story Prize
2013
Work: Hitting Trees with Sticks
Result: Shortlisted
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
2013
Work: Hitting Trees with Sticks
Result: Longlisted

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

1991 Novel
ReligionCommunity

The Voyage Home

2004 Novel

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

2011 Science Fiction Novel
SacrificeFutureWomen

Bibliography

  • Separate Tracks (1983)
  • Her Living Image (1984)
  • The Ice is Singing (1987)
  • Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1991)
  • Promised Lands (1995)
  • Island (1999)
  • The Voyage Home (2004)
  • The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011)
  • Conrad and Eleanor (2016)

Translations by Author

  • Adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle (BBC Radio 4, 2015)

Legacy

British novelist known for works including science fiction elements.