Michèle Roberts

1949–

British novelist, poet and memoirist with dual British and French nationality. Born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, to a French mother and an English father, she grew up in Edgware and read English at Somerville College, Oxford. Active in the women’s liberation movement, she was poetry editor of Spare Rib and later of City Limits. Her first novel, A Piece of the Night, appeared in 1978. Other books include The Book of Mrs Noah, Impossible Saints, the memoir Paper Houses and The Walworth Beauty. Daughters of the House, which won the WH Smith Literary Award, was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Michèle Roberts’s life

Works

• Daughters of the House (1992)

Prizes

• Daughters of the House — The Booker Prize 1992: Shortlist