Francesca Segal
Francesca Segal (born 1980 in London ) is an American-British journalist and writer.
Life
Francesca Segal is one of two daughters of Karen Marianne James and of the American author Erich Segal . She grew up in London and studied in Oxford at St Hugh's College and Harvard University . Since then, she has worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian , Vogue , The Observer and the Financial Times, among others . She lives in Boston and London.
Her first novel, The Innocents , received the First Novel Costa Book Award and other recognitions in 2012, and was on the longlist of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013 .
Works
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The Innocents . New York: Voice, 2012
- The innocent . Translation by Verena Kilchling. Berlin: Kein & Aber, 2013 ISBN 978-3-0369-5675-6
- Jane Austen : Sense and sensibility . Introduction by Francesca Segal. London: Vintage Book, 2014
- The Awkward Age . New York: Riverhead Books, 2017
- Mothership . Chatto & Windus, 2019
literature
- Reinhard Helling: Seduction in Hamstead. Francesca Segal tells of a love triangle in Jewish London . Review, in: Jüdische Allgemeine , July 18, 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Francesca Segal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Francesca Segal in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Francesca Segal at perlentaucher.de
- Francesca Segal , website
- Simon Round: Francesca Segal: the Costa Prize-winning novelist following in her father's footsteps , in: The Jewish Chronicle , January 24, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segal, Francesca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-British journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |