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| Lee Langley Lee Langley is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, a volume of short stories, poetry, film and television screenplays and a stage play performed internationally and in London’s West End. She has written on travel and the arts for leading British newspapers and magazines. Born in Calcutta, of Scottish parents, she spent a nomadic childhood in India. Later travels have taken her to Japan, North and South America, Australia, back to India, the Andaman Islands, Egypt and throughout Europe. Her autobiographical novel “Changes of Address” was short-listed for the Hawthornden prize and was a BBC Radio 4 “Book at Bedtime”. Her novel “Persistent Rumours” won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Novel of the Year Award. A leading reviewer wrote: “Lee Langley has a marvellous ability to evoke places. With originality and elegance she carried me, enthralled, into disparate, related and brilliantly illuminated worlds.” For Hollywood, she wrote the screenplay of “The Tenth Man” an award-winning movie based on a Graham Greene story starring Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi, and her adaptation of “A Woman of Substance” became an internationally successful TV mini-series, attracting the highest viewing figures in the history of Channel 4 when it was transmitted. She has served on the executive committee and the Writers in Prison committee of English PEN and chaired the PEN Literary Foundation. In 1996 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is fluent in French and Italian, and is available for talks to book groups and literary organizations. She has just completed her tenth novel, set in Japan and America in the mid twentieth century, to be published by Chatto & Windus in 2010. |
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