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Trezza Azzopardi


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Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and is currently a lecturer there.

Her acclaimed first novel, The Hiding Place (2000), is the story of a Maltese family living in Cardiff during the 1960s. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). The book was also adapted for BBC Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime' and has been translated into 14 languages. Her second novel, Remember Me (2004), centres on 72-year-old Lilian (also known as Winnie), a homeless woman, in search of her stolen possessions and her troubled past.

Trezza Azzopardi lives in Norwich. Her third novel, Winterton Blue, was published in 2007.
 


Genres: Fantasy
 
Novels
   The Hiding Place (2000)
   Remember Me (2004)
   Winterton Blue (2007)
   The Song House (2010)
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Award nominations
2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The Hiding Place
2000 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Hiding Place


Trezza Azzopardi recommends
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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011)
Christie Watson
"So good I had to lie down after reading it."
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True Things About Me (2010)
Deborah Kay Davies
"The Bell Jar for the twenty-first century."



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