Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain è una autrice inglese altamente plaudita e bestseller, acclamata per il suo lavoro in vari generi, tra cui realismo magico, fiction storica, mistero, crimine, suspense, culturale e fiction letteraria. Ha vinto numerosi premi letterari prestigiosi, tra cui il James Tait Black Memorial Prize, il Baileys Women's Prize, il Prix Femina Etranger, l'Orange Prize, il Giles Cooper Award e il Whitbread Award. Uno dei suoi lavori più notevoli, "Restoration", è stato persino incluso nella selezione del rinomato Booker Prize.

Nata come Rosemary Jane Thomson il 2 agosto 1943 a Londra, Regno Unito, Tremain discende da una stirpe di figure di spicco. Il suo trisavolo, William Thomson, fu arcivescovo di York tra il 1862 e il 1890. Ha completato la sua istruzione primaria alla Francis Holland School e alla Crofton Grange School, proseguendo gli studi alla Sorbonne. Tremain ha conseguito la laurea in letteratura inglese presso l' prestigiosa University of East Anglia.

I romanzi di Tremain hanno raggiunto un notevole successo commerciale e critico. Tra i suoi lavori più popolari figura "Restoration", il primo di una serie con Robert Merivel. Condivide la sua vita con il biografo Richard Holmes, risiedendo sia nel Norfolk che a Londra.
Restoration Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Restoration 1989
2 Merivel 2012
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Letter to Sister Benedicta 1978
2 The Cupboard 1981
3 The Swimming Pool Season 1985
4 Journey To The Volcano 1985
5 Sadler's Birthday 1991
6 Sacred Country 1995
7 The Way I Found Her 1997
8 Music & Silence 1999
9 The Colour 2003
10 The Road Home 2007
11 Trespass 2010
12 The Gustav Sonata 2016
13 Islands of Mercy 2020
14 Lily 2021
15 Absolutely and Forever 2023
16 The Toy Car 2025
17 The Housekeeper 2026
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories 1987
2 Evangelista's Fan and Other Stories 1994
3 Collected Short Stories 1996
4 The Darkness of Wallis Simpson 2005
5 Wildtrack 2011
6 The Garden Of The Villa Mollini And Other Stories 2011
7 The American Lover 2014
Chapbooks
# Titolo Anno
1 The Kite Flyer 1984
2 Knife Skills 1999
Libri per bambini
# Titolo Anno
1 Journey To The Volcano 1985
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Stalin 1975
2 Friendship 2018
3 Rosie 2018
Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: War Leader Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Churchill 1972
2 Stalin 1975
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Fight For Freedom For Women 1973
Vintage Minis Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Language (By: Xiaolu Guo) 2017
2 Motherhood 2017
3 Swimming 2017
4 Friendship 2018
5 Jealousy 2017
6 Summer 2017
7 Love 2017
8 Eating 2017
9 Psychedelics 2017
The BBC National Short Story Award Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (By: Helen Oyeyemi, David Constantine, Sarah Hall, Aminatta Forna, Jon McGregor) 2010
2 The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 (By: Alison MacLeod, M.J. Hyland, Jon McGregor, K.J. Orr, Sue MacGregor) 2011
3 The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (By: Miroslav Penkov, Carrie Tiffany, Deborah Levy, M.J. Hyland, Clive Anderson, Lucy Caldwell, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Julian Gough, Chris Womersley, Krys Lee, Adam Ross) 2012
4 The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 (By: Lionel Shriver, Sarah Hall, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lucy Wood) 2013
5 The BBC National Short Story Award 2014 (With: Tessa Hadley, Lionel Shriver, Zadie Smith, Francesca Rhydderch, Alan Yentob) 2014
6 The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (By: Jeremy Page) 2015
7 BBC National Short Story Award 2016 (By: Hilary Mantel, Claire-Louise Bennett, Lavinia Greenlaw, Tahmima Anam, Jenni Murray, K.J. Orr) 2016
8 The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 (By: Joanna Trollope, Helen Oyeyemi, Jenni Fagan, Benjamin Markovits, Will Eaves, Cynan Jones) 2017
9 The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 (By: Kerry Andrew, Sarah Hall, Ingrid Persaud, Nell Stevens, Kiare Ladner, Stig Abell) 2018
10 The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Jo Lloyd, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Nikki Bedi) 2019
11 The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 (By: Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Caleb Nelson, Jan Carson, Jack Houston) 2020
12 The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 (By: Danny Rhodes, James Runcie, Richard Smyth, Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding) 2021
13 The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 (By: Kerry Andrew, Elizabeth Day, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams) 2022
14 The BBC National Short Story Award 2023 (By: Kamila Shamsie, Reeta Chakrabarti, Nick Mulgrew, Naomi Wood, Cherise Saywell, K Patrick) 2023
15 The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Ross Raisin, Will Boast, Manish Chauhan, Paddy O’Connell, Vee Walker) 2024
Rose Tremain Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Best of Young British Novelists 1983
2 Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists 1983
3 The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories 1987
4 Fanfare: Fourteen Stories on a Musical Theme 1999
5 A Distant Cry 2002
6 Great Escapes 2008
7 Ox-Tales: Earth 2009
8 The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 2012
9 The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 2018
10 The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 2019
11 The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 2020
12 The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 2022