Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain, born in London in 1943, is a British writer. She studied at the Sorbonne for a year and graduated in English from the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1967. Before turning to writing, she worked as a teacher at a private boys’ school; from 1988 to 1995, she taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has written novels and short stories as well as work for film, radio and television. Her novel “Restoration” was adapted for film in 1995. “The Road Home,” published in German as “Der weite Weg nach Hause,” won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008. In 2020, Tremain was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II.