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Sarah Waters

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Welsh novelist (1966-)

United KingdomWritersBorn 1966 · age 60
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Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively.

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Sarah Waters
said · 1999
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With me and my queer nature, that set me so at odds with the world and all its ordinary rules, I could not find a place in it to live and be content.

Affinity (1999)

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Sarah Waters
said · 1999
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They will turn my passion into something gross and wrong... It is only love, Helenonly that.

Affinity (1999)

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Awards 6

2014honorary doctorate
2009Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2002CWA Historical Dagger
2000Somerset Maugham Award
Lambda Literary Award
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively. The latter novel was also adapted into the South Korean film The Handmaiden (2016).

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1966 · age 60
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29 languages

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