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Marius Gabriel Cipolla | |
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| Born | November 13, 1954 Mafikeng, South Africa |
| Pen name | Madeleine Ker, Marius Gabriel |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British[1] |
| Citizenship | British |
| Period | 1983–present |
| Genre | Romance, mystery, children's literature |
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Marius Gabriel (born 13 November 1954 in Mafikeng, South Africa) is a historical novelist. He is the author of The Redcliffe Sisters series, The Designer, The Ocean Liner, The Parisians and a number of other bestsellers.
In 2018, he and Kerry Wilkinson became the first men using their own names to win a RoNA Award in the organisation's 58-year history.[2] Gabriel won for his historical novel, The Designer.
Marius Gabriel Cipolla studied Shakespeare in the University of Newcastle in northern England. To finance his postgraduate research, he began writing romance fiction. He sold his first novel to Mills & Boon, published in 1983 under the female pseudonym Madeleine Ker. He left his academic pursuits to become a full-time writer.[3]
He has homes in Cairo and Lincolnshire.[4]
