Background
She was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually.
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Rachel Seiffert
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Career
She currently lives in London. Seiffert"s subject is the individual in history: how political and economic upheavals impact on ordinary lives. Her characters have included the 12-year-old daughter of an Steamship officer in 1945, a Polish seasonal worker on a German asparagus farm after the fall of the wall, and a London painter and decorator who killed a civilian as a 19-year-old squaddie with the British Army in Northern Ireland.
Achievements
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The Dark Room (2001) a novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for First Fiction and a Betty Trask Award in 2002. Field Study (2004) a collection of short stories, one of which received an award from International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association. Afterwards (2007) a novel, long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction the same year. In 2011, she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Awards
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Forster Award; First Book Award; Booker Prize; Betty Trask Award; Orange Prize for Fiction
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.