Liz Jensen

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born

The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.lizjensen.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She spent two years as a journalist in the Far East before joining the BBC, first as a journalist, then as a TV and radio producer. She then moved to France where she worked as a sculptor began her first novel, Egg Dancing, which was published in 1995. Back in London she wrote Ark Baby (1998) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002) which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has two children and shares her life with the Danish essayist, travel writer and novelist Carsten Jensen.

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Books by Liz Jensen

Average rating: 3.67 · 2,458 ratings · 553 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax 3.73 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Rapture 3.31 avg rating — 727 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	My rating:
	My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time 3.49 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ark Baby 4.03 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	War Crimes For The Home 3.67 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Paper Eater 3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Egg Dancing 3.19 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Uninvited 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, Charlotte Barslund (Translator), Liz Jensen (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Liz Jensen

“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

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“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”
― Liz Jensen, Ark Baby

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