Liz Jensen

Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire to an Anglo-Moroccan librarian mother and a Danish violin-maker father. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and Taiwan, then as a TV and radio producer for the BBC in the UK. In 1987 Jensen moved to France where she worked as a sculptor and freelance journalist, and began writing her first novel, Egg Dancing, published in 1995. Returning to London, she followed this debut with Ark Baby (1998), The Paper Eater (2000), War Crimes for the Home (2002), The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004), and My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time (2006). Liz Jensen’s work has been shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction award, nominated three times for the Orange Prize, developed for film, and translated into more than 20 languages. She has two sons, and shares her life with the Danish writer Carsten Jensen. She divides her time between London and Copenhagen.