Clare Morrall

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Clare Morrall (born 1952 in Exeter ) is a British writer.

Life

Clare Morrall studied music in Birmingham and has since worked there as a piano and violin teacher at the Blue Coat School. In 2003, she published her first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Color , which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the award. In her 2016 novel When the Floods Came , only one last family lives in Morall's hometown of Birmingham.

Works

  • When the Floods Came . London: Scepter, 2016
  • After the bombing . London: Scepter, 2014
  • The Roundabout Man . London: Scepter, 2012
  • The Man Who Disappeared . London: Scepter, 2010
  • The Language of Others . London: Scepter, 2008
  • Natural Flights of the Human Mind . London: Scepter, 2006
    • The man who fell from the clouds: Roman . Translation Thomas Mohr. Munich: Goldmann, 2007
  • Astonishing Splashes of Color . London: Scepter, 2003
    • Portrait of an Invisible: Roman . Translation Thomas Mohr. Munich: Goldmann, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait on literature.britishcouncil.org (Engl.)
  2. ^ Blue Coat School , website
  3. Catherine Taylor: The last family in Birmingham , Review, in: Financial Times , February 20, 2016, 11