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

She was born in 1941 in Dorset[1] 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.[2]

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel Our Horses in Egypt won the James Tait Black Award in 2007.[3] Among her other books are Bogies, Reuben Little Hero, The Limit, Dreaming of Dead People, and Hound Music.[4]

Lynne Segal described her as a "somewhat neglected author and elegant stylist", and praised Dreaming of Dead People.[5]

Novels

References

  1. ^ "The Travails of One Woman and Her Horse" The Daily Telegraph, 25 February 2007
  2. ^ Sefton, Daniel (2007). Debrett's People of Today 2008. Debrett's. p. 117 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "List of James Tait Black Award Winners" Archived 15 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh website, accessed 29 October 2010
  4. ^ "Author details for Rosalind Belben" Random House website, accessed 29 October 2010
  5. ^ Segal, Lynne (2013). Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing. Verso. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-78168-504-4. Retrieved 8 August 2022.

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