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Alice Albinia


UK flag (b.1976)

Born in 1976, Alice Albinia read English Literature at Cambridge, and South Asian History at SOAS. In between, she worked for two years in Delhi as a journalist and editor. Her book, Empires of the Indus, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Authors' Club Dolman Travel Award and the Jerwood/Royal Society of Literature Prize.
 


Genres: Romance
 
Novels
   Leela's Book (2011)
   Cwen (2021)
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Award nominations
2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (nominee) : Cwen


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