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Sarah Waters biography
Sarah Waters was born in 1966 in Pembrokeshire, a county in South West Wales. Her father, Ron, was an engineer and her mother, Mary, was a housewife. She has one much older sister, so grew up almost as an only child. Encouraged to be creative by her father, she wrote 'terrible gothic pastiches'1 and built Airfix models of classic planes.
A pastiche is a work of art or literature that imitates another work or works from a previous era. Unlike parody, a pastiche does not mock another work.
Following in her parent’s footsteps, Waters attended Milford Haven Grammar School. She has mentioned that provincial Wales did not generally promote explorations of sexual preferences outside the heterosexual. As a result, while at Milford, she dated a few teenage boys who were 'a bit effete'.1
Moving to Whitstable, she received a BA in English Literature from the University of Kent. This was followed by an MA from Lancaster University and then a Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London. Her thesis was titled 'Wolfskins and togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present', already indicating the themes of her future novels.
Despite beginning her first long-term lesbian relationship with a girl named Kate when she was 19, Waters o
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Sarah Waters OBE, was born in Wales. She is the author of six novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, which have been adapted for stage, television and feature film in the UK and US, and The Paying Guests. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and she has won the Betty Trask Award; the Somerset Maugham Award; The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger. Sarah has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers’ Association, Waterstones Booksellers; Stonewall’s Writer of the Decade in 2015; Diva Magazine Author of the Year Award and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2017, which is given in recognition of a writer’s entire body of work. Sarah was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sarah Waters lives in London.
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Sarah Waters Biography
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Adaptations include Tipping the Velvet (multi confer winning, BAFTA nominated) lump Sally Head Productions commandeer BBC; Fingersmith (BAFTA nominated) by Wisecrack Head Productions