Michel Faber

Michel Faber ( born April 13, 1960 in The Hague, Netherlands) is an English writer.

Life

At the age of 7 years, his parents emigrated with him to Australia, where they left behind a half-brother in a home for difficult children. Faber coped with the emigration difficult and had to be treated in a hospital. He grew up on the city of Melbourne in the outskirts of Boronia and Bayswater.

He studied English in Melbourne. The focus of his studies was on the literature of the 19th century. At the beginning of the eighties he tried jointly with his first wife to emigrate to the UK, but failed and there experienced a brief period of homelessness, before returning to Australia. Shortly thereafter, however ended the marriage, and the first work on his novel " The crimson petal " began while he lived as a male nurse and with various other activities on water. Heat and light in Australia caused severe migraines, so he with his second wife, Eva Youren, re- emigrated in 1992 to the UK - this time successful - and sat down with her and her two sons in a converted railway station near the Scottish city of Inverness. For his recent publications, he has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2000 for "The World Wanderin ' ( Under The Skin ), and he received several awards. After twenty years of preparatory work was published in 2002 the novel " The crimson petal ".

On the basis of his novel The Farstrider ( Under the Skin ) was created in 2013, the film Under the Skin.

Works

• The Farstrider, novel, ISBN 3462033980
• The Courage Consort, dt: The Unfinished, novella, ISBN 3471775625
• The Hundred and Ninety- Nine Steps, dt: Hundertneunundneunzig levels, novella, ISBN 3546003918
• Some Rain Must Fall, stories
• The Crimson Petal and the White, dt: the crimson petal, ISBN 3548604781
• The Fahrenheit Twins
• The Unfinished, Roman, List Publisher