{"id":12,"date":"2015-02-06T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizjensen.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:13:00","slug":"about-liz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lizjensen.com\/test\/about-liz\/","title":{"rendered":"About Liz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Jensen is the best-selling author of eight novels including the Hollywood-adapted <em>The Ninth Life of Louis Drax<\/em>, and the two ecological thrillers <em>The Rapture<\/em> (a TV Book Club Best Read) and <em>The Uninvited<\/em>. Her critically-acclaimed imaginative output spans black comedy, science fiction, satire, family drama, historical fantasy and psychological suspense. Her fiction has been adapted for radio, appeared in anthologies, developed for film, short-listed for the Guardian Fiction award, nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Bailey&#8217;s Prize), and translated into twenty languages.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Jensen worked in newspapers and radio in Hongkong and Taiwan. She then spent four years as a freelance writer and sculptor in France, and ten as a BBC producer in the UK. Her first novel, the black comedy <em>Egg Dancing<\/em>, was published to critical acclaim in 1995. It was followed by two satirical novels, the time-slip fantasy <em>Ark Baby<\/em> (1998), and the dystopian <em>The Paper Eater<\/em> (2000). In <em>War Crimes for the Home<\/em> (2002), and <em>The Ninth Life of Louis Drax<\/em> (2004), she turned her attention to psychological suspense. The comic flight of fancy <em>My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time<\/em> (2006) was followed by two dark ecological thrillers, <em>The Rapture<\/em> (2009) and <em>The Uninvited<\/em> (2012). All her novels are published in the UK by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomsbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Jensen has two adult sons and shares her life with the Danish writer <a href=\"http:\/\/carstenjensenhjemmeside.dk\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Carsten Jensen<\/a>, best-selling author of the internationally-acclaimed <em>We, The Drowned<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches creative writing both in the UK and at <em>Study Abroad in Scandinavia<\/em> in her home city, Copenhagen.\u00a0An academic study of her work, <em>The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen, A Critical Reading\u00a0<\/em>by Helen E. Mundler will be published this autumn by Camden House, New York.<\/p>\n<p>This year also marks the\u00a0completion of Max Minghella\u2019s film adaptation of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3991412\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ninth Life of Louis Drax<\/a><\/em>, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aaron Paul and Aiden Longworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Jensen is the best-selling author of eight novels including the Hollywood-adapted The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, and the two ecological thrillers The Rapture (a TV Book Club Best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lizjensen.com\/test\/about-liz\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/about-liz.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About Liz - Liz Jensen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lizjensen.com\/test\/about-liz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Liz - Liz Jensen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liz Jensen is the best-selling author of eight novels including the Hollywood-adapted The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, and the two ecological thrillers The Rapture (a TV Book Club Best &hellip; 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