Rosalind Belben

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Rosalind Loveday Belben (born 1 February 1941) is an English novelist.

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She was born in 1941 in Dorset [1] where she now lives, in Bere Regis. She is the daughter of George Devereux Belben, a decorated Royal Navy commander, and Joyce Pamela May Belben. [2]

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel Our Horses in Egypt won the James Tait Black Award in 2007. [3] Among her other books are Bogies, Reuben Little Hero, The Limit, Dreaming of Dead People, and Hound Music . [4]

Lynne Segal described her as a "somewhat neglected author and elegant stylist", and praised Dreaming of Dead People. [5]

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References

  1. "The Travails of One Woman and Her Horse" The Daily Telegraph , 25 February 2007
  2. Sefton, Daniel (2007). Debrett's People of Today 2008. Debrett's. p. 117 via Internet Archive.
  3. "List of James Tait Black Award Winners" Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh website, accessed 29 October 2010
  4. "Author details for Rosalind Belben" Random House website, accessed 29 October 2010
  5. Segal, Lynne (2013). Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing. Verso. p. 174. ISBN   978-1-78168-504-4 . Retrieved 8 August 2022.