Sarah Waters
Welsh novelist (1966-) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers
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.
Sarah Waters is read about 264 times a day, in 37 languages.
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 112 days, one point a day.
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2014Honorary DoctorateAward2009Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2002CWA Historical DaggerAward2000Somerset Maugham AwardAward1999“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.”In their wordsAffinity (1999)“They will turn my passion into something gross and wrong... It is only love, Helenonly that.”In their wordsAffinity (1999)1966Born21 July 1966
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The latter novel was also adapted into the South Korean film The Handmaiden (2016).
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United Kingdom
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Born 1966 · age 60
