Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes.[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Azzopardi was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother.[2] She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby.
Career
[edit | edit source]Azzopardi's novel The Hiding Place (2000), is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.[3] It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, Remember Me (2003), was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. Winterton Blue (2007) was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories and performs readings for BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich, in the east of England.[4]
Bibliography
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Profile at www.contemporarywriters.com
- NY times review of Winterton Blue
- Profile at Writers of Wales Database
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- 1961 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Welsh novelists
- 21st-century Welsh novelists
- 20th-century Welsh women writers
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Alumni of the University of Derby
- Welsh women novelists
- Writers from Cardiff
- Anglo-Welsh novelists
- Welsh people of Maltese descent
- 20th-century British women novelists
- Welsh writer stubs
- British novelist stubs