Jane Rogers (novelist)

Jane Rogers (born 21 July 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best known for her novels Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home. In 1994 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jane Rogers
Born	(1952-07-21) 21 July 1952 (age 72) London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British

Early life

Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School, a private girls school in Oxford. She then matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English. She graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1974. She went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Leicester in 1976.^[1]

She now lives in Banbury.

Career

Her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

In November 2015, her adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It starred Holliday Grainger as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain.^[2]

Bibliography

• Separate Tracks (1983, Faber)
• Her Living Image (1984, Faber)
• The Ice is Singing (1987, Faber)
• Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1991, Faber)
• Promised Lands (1995, Faber)
• Island (1999, Little Brown)
• The Voyage Home (2004, Little Brown)
• The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011, Sandstone)
• Conrad and Eleanor (2016, Faber)

Prizes and honours

Honors

• 1994 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Literary awards

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
1985	Her Living Image	Somerset Maugham Award	—	Won
1996	Promised Lands	Women's Prize for Fiction	—	Longlisted
2000	Island	Women's Prize for Fiction	—	Longlisted
2011	The Testament of Jessie Lamb	Kitschies	Red Tentacle (Novel)	Finalist
		Man Booker Prize	—	Longlisted
2012		Arthur C. Clarke Award	—	Won
2013	Hitting Trees with Sticks	Edge Hill Short Story Prize	—	Shortlisted
		Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award	—	Longlisted