Liz Jensen

Liz Jensen (* 1959 in Oxfordshire ) is an English writer who is currently also working for the BBC in the radio and television sector.

Life

Liz Jensen's mother was British-Moroccan and her father was of Danish origin; the mother was a librarian, the father a violin maker. Liz Jensen studied English at Somerville College , Oxford . She then worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and Taiwan, then in Great Britain as a radio and television producer for the BBC. In 1987 she went to France, where she worked as a sculptor and freelance journalist. There she began to write books. On her return to London, her first novel was published in 1995. Her books have since been translated into more than 20 languages.

She has two sons and lives with the Danish bestselling author Carsten Jensen in London and Copenhagen.

Novels

• Egg Dancing , 1995
  • Eiertanz, German by Sabine Schwenk and Kristine Rohrbach, Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996. ISBN 978-3-426-65092-9
• Ark Baby , 1997
• Paper Eater , 2000
• War Crimes for the Home , 2002
• The Ninth Life of Louis Drax , 2005
  • The ninth life of Louis Drax, German by Werner Loch-Lawrence , Bloomsbury, Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3-8333-0348-7
• My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time , 2007
  • My dirty little book about the stolen time, German by Werner Loch-Lawrence, Bloomsbury, Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-8333-0495-8
• The Rapture , 2010
  • Endzeit, German by Susanne Gloga-Klinkenberg, dtv, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-423-24844-0
• The Uninvited , 2012
  • Those coming, German by Susanne Goga-Klinkenberg , dtv, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-423-24960-7 .

Audio books

• 2011: Endzeit , Der Hörverlag (DHV) Munich, abridged, 6 CDs read by Andrea Sawatzki , 447 min. ISBN 978-3-86717-721-4

literature

• Franz Rottensteiner: They're coming . In: Quarber Mercury . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy , vol. 115, pp. 193f., 2014. ISBN 978-3-934273-94-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Liz Jensen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Liz Jensen in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Liz Jensen's homepage
• Liz Jensen on Bloomsbury.com
• Video interview with Liz Jensen about "The Uninvited" at arcfinity.org, July 2, 2012 (accessed June 25, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Royal Society of Literature ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English 
2. ↑ BBC (English) accessed April 24, 2011
3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the author's homepage