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

  • Bogies (1972)
  • Reuben Little Hero (1973)
  • The Limit (1974)
  • Dreaming of Dead People (1979)
  • Is Beauty Good (1989)
  • Choosing Spectacles (1995)
  • Hound Music (2001)
  • Our Horses in Egypt (2007)

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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