Rosalind Belben Explained
Rosalind Loveday Belben (born 1 February 1941) is an English novelist.
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]
Novels
- Bogies (1972)
- Reuben Little Hero (1973)
- The Limit (1974)
- Dreaming of Dead People (1979)
- Is Beauty Good (1989)
- Choosing Spectacles (1995)
- Hound Music (2001)
- Our Horses in Egypt (2007)
References
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3663406/The-travails-of-one-woman-and-her-horse.html "The Travails of One Woman and Her Horse"
- Book: Sefton, Daniel . 2007 . Debrett's People of Today 2008 . . Debrett's . 117.
- http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm "List of James Tait Black Award Winners"
- http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=3712 "Author details for Rosalind Belben"
- Book: Segal, Lynne . Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing . Verso . 2013 . 978-1-78168-504-4 . 8 Aug 2022 . 174.
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