Rosalind Belben

{{Short description|English novelist}}

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Rosalind Loveday Belben (born 1 February 1941) is an English novelist.

She was born in 1941 in Dorset[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3663406/The-travails-of-one-woman-and-her-horse.html "The Travails of One Woman and Her Horse"] The Daily Telegraph, 25 February 2007 where she now lives, in Bere Regis. She is the daughter of George Devereux Belben, a decorated Royal Navy commander, and Joyce Pamela May Belben.{{cite book |last=Sefton |first=Daniel |date=2007 |title=Debrett's People of Today 2008 |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeopleof0000seft |via=Internet Archive |publisher=Debrett's |page=117|isbn=978-1-870520-95-9 }}

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel Our Horses in Egypt won the James Tait Black Award in 2007.[http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm "List of James Tait Black Award Winners"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070115050855/http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm |date=15 January 2007 }} University of Edinburgh website, accessed 29 October 2010 Among her other books are Bogies, Reuben Little Hero, The Limit, Dreaming of Dead People, and Hound Music.[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=3712 "Author details for Rosalind Belben"] Random House website, accessed 29 October 2010

Lynne Segal described her as a "somewhat neglected author and elegant stylist", and praised Dreaming of Dead People.{{cite book | last=Segal | first=Lynne | title=Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing | publisher=Verso | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-78168-504-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smvnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174 | access-date=8 Aug 2022 | page=174}}