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.
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.
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.
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 — 1996 Promised Lands Women's Prize for Fiction — 2000 Island Women's Prize for Fiction — 2011The Testament of Jessie Lamb Kitschies Red Tentacle (Novel) Man Booker Prize — 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award — 2013Hitting Trees with Sticks Edge Hill Short Story Prize — Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award —
References
External links
BBC radio plays at ukonline