Frances Liardet

Frances Liardet studied Arabic at Oxford and then went to Cairo to translate modern Egyptian novelists including Naguib Mahfouz and Edwar al-Kharrat.

 

Her first novel, The Game, came out in 1994 with Picador and won a Betty Trask award.

For her PhD she did an apprenticeship in ancient Greek hot-glass working, making a huge number of stripy glass vessels which she will bring down from her attic and show you at the slightest provocation.

 

She’s currently a support worker for the stillbirth and neonatal death charity SANDS, and she’s also what people insist on calling an ‘older mother,’ a situation which continues to delight and amaze her.

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Agent: Jo Unwin

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