Elena Lappin

Elena Lappin is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of a collection of stories, Foreign Brides (Picador, 1999), and a novel, The Nose (Picador, 2001). Her investigative narrative about the case of Fragments, a famous Holocaust hoax, was the cover title in Granta’s Truth and Lies issue (2000).

She has contributed journalism, features, reviews and columns too; these include pieces for, among others, Prospect, Slate, The Sunday Times, The Guardian Weekend, and The New York Times Book Review. She has presented interviews with foreign writers on BBC Radio 3, which also broadcast her original comedy series Marty Himmelfarb and several stories. Her book about Solomon’s Song of Songs (a personal meditation on its erotic appeal to a 21st century readership) will be published by Schocken/Nextbook (US) next year.

She is currently writing a memoir, WHAT LANGUAGE DO YOU DREAM IN? to be published by Virago (Little Brown) in 2010.


Author's Agent:
Clare Alexander

Author photograph credit:
Jerry Bauer

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