Trezza Azzopardi
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Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes.{{cite book|author=Tracy J. Prince|title=Culture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbVDP9HD_yMC&pg=PA44|date=18 September 2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9307-4|page=44}}
Early life
Azzopardi was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother.{{cite book|author=Robert Adams|title=A Love of Reading, The Second Collection: More Reviews of Contemporary Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-CjWfc_PgcC&pg=PT30|date=9 July 2013|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|isbn=978-1-55199-448-2|pages=30}} She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby.
Career
Azzopardi's novel The Hiding Place (2000), is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.{{cite web |author=Merope Mills |date=23 October 2000 |title=My media: Trezza Azzopardi |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2000/story/0,6194,386760,00.html |access-date=12 January 2021 |website=The Guardian}} It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, Remember Me (2003), was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. Winterton Blue (2007) was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories and performs readings for BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich, in the east of England.{{cite book |author=Trezza Azzopardi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhVp4qeIEFYC |title=Winterton Blue |date=4 September 2008 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-0-330-46465-9}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book |first=Trezza |last=Azzopardi |author-mask=2 |title=The Hiding Place |year=2000 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9780871138156}}
- {{cite book |first=Trezza |last=Azzopardi |author-mask=2 |title=Remember Me |year=2003 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9780330493475}}
- {{cite book |first=Trezza |last=Azzopardi |author-mask=2 |title=Winterton Blue |year=2007 |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=9780802118417}}{{cite book |first=Trezza |last=Azzopardi |title=Winterton Blue |year=2008 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=9780330464659 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhVp4qeIEFYC}}
- {{cite book |first=Trezza |last=Azzopardi |author-mask=2 |title=The Song House |year=2010 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9780330461030}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203215701/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth01K30O145912626168 Profile at www.contemporarywriters.com]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Schillinger3.t.html NY times review of Winterton Blue]
- [http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/129957/desc/azzopardi-trezza/ Profile at Writers of Wales Database]
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Category:20th-century Welsh novelists
Category:21st-century Welsh novelists
Category:20th-century Welsh women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
Category:Alumni of the University of Derby
Category:Welsh women novelists
Category:Anglo-Welsh novelists
Category:Welsh people of Maltese descent
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