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Sarah Waters is a British writer, born in Neyland, in the county of Pembroke (Wales) in 1966. She currently lives with London.

After studies with the University of Kent and a thesis in English Literature, it was teaching bookseller then. Its first novel, Tipping the Velvet ( To cherish velvet ) is appeared in 1998 and has as a subject the Lesbianisme with the time victorienne (velvet being one of the names of the female sex in the slang of the time). The work was adapted for the television channel BBC Two by Andrew Davies in the shape of a film in three parts.

Its third novel, Fingersmith ( Of the end of the fingers ) brought the dedication to him. The history is based on topics of the popular novel (plot, removal of children, world of the robbers as in Oliver Twist) associated with the loves lesbians. BBC One adapted it in 2005, with the actresses Elaine Cassidy and Imelda Staunton.

Sarah Waters was elected “author of the year” by the Sunday Times in 2003, it received the price of the Booksellers and the British Book Awards (Author of the year 2002).

In The Night Watch , work published in English in 2006, the characters (four women, of which three are lesbians, and a homosexual man) divide secret and scandals in London of the years 1940.

Works

Tipping the Velvet , 1998. To cherish velvet , Denoël 2002
Affinity , gained the Stonewall Book Award, 1999.
Fingersmith , Virago Near, 2002. Of the end of the fingers , Denoël 2003.
The Nightwatch , 2006. Night round , Denoël, 2006.

Other bonds

Official site
Biography and bibliography of British Council
Profil Virago
The Beats Segundo Show #37

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