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. [3] Her novel Our Horses in Egypt won the James Tait Black Award in 2007. [4] Among her other books are Bogies, Reuben Little Hero, The Limit, Dreaming of Dead People, and Hound Music . [5]

Lynne Segal described her as a "somewhat neglected author and elegant stylist", and praised Dreaming of Dead People. [6]

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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. ISBN   978-1-870520-95-9 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ "Belben, Rosalind". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "List of James Tait Black Award Winners" Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh website, accessed 29 October 2010
  5. ↑ "Author details for Rosalind Belben" Random House website, accessed 29 October 2010
  6. ↑ 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.


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