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==Notable Achievements==
 
==Notable Achievements==
  
FRSL
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FRSL, OBE
  
 
==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Lesbian novels set in a Victorian theme.  Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.  Her latest novel is 'The Little Stranger' (2009), a ghost story - shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and was serialised for television in 2011.
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Author of lesbian novels set in a Victorian theme.  Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.  Her latest novel is 'The Little Stranger' (2009), a ghost story - shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and was serialised for television in 2011.  Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2019.
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==
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* http://www.theguardian.com/books/sarahwaters
 
* http://www.theguardian.com/books/sarahwaters
 
* http://literature.britishcouncil.org/sarah-waters
 
* http://literature.britishcouncil.org/sarah-waters
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* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/20/sarah-waters-on-20-years-of-tipping-the-velvet
  
 
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Sarah Waters

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1966 -

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

FRSL, OBE

Description

Author of lesbian novels set in a Victorian theme. Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. Her latest novel is 'The Little Stranger' (2009), a ghost story - shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and was serialised for television in 2011. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2019.

Further Reading/Research


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