Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi (* 1961 in Cardiff , Wales ) is a British writer .

Life

Trezza Azzopardi is the daughter of a Maltese and a Welsh woman. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia and then film and television studies at the University of Derby . She made her debut as a writer with The Hiding Place in 2000. She received shortlist nominations for the Booker Prize , the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize . In the same year the book was published in a translation by Monika Schmalz under the title Das Versteck in Berlin Verlag . Her books have been translated into a total of 17 languages.

Azzopardi currently lives in the east English university city of Norwich , where she teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Works

• The Hiding Place (2000; German: Das Versteck , Berlin 2000, Berlin Verlag , ISBN 3-8270-0369-5 )
• Remember Me (2003; German: What I mustn't forget , Berlin 2005, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 3-8270-0549-3 )
• Winterton Blue (2007; German: Tourmalin , Berlin 2011, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8270-0733-9 )
• The Song House (2010)
• The Tip of My Tongue (2013)

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Trezza Azzopardi at perlentaucher.de
• Trezza Azzopardi on uea.ac.uk