Francesca Segal (born 1980) is a British author and journalist. She was raised in a Jewish community in north-west London where she still lives today.
She is best known for her novel, ''The Innocents'', which won several book awards.
She is the daughter of American author,
Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel '' Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation.
Early life and education
Born and raised in a ...
.
Career
Segal studied at
St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...
before becoming an author and journalist. Her writing has been published in many places including
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
,
American Vogue
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,
British Vogue
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,
The Observer
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, and the
Financial Times
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.
Her first novel, ''The Innocents'' was published in 2012 and is based in a Jewish community, similar to the one in which she grew up in.
It won several awards and was also longlisted for the 2013
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...
.
Segal's second novel, ''The Awkward Age'' was published in May 2017. Her third book, ''Mother Ship'' is a memoir released in June 2019. It follows Segal in the aftermath of the premature birth of her twin daughters and their time spent in hospital.
Awards
*2012 -
Costa Award for a first novel for ''The Innocents''
*2012 -
National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.[Betty Trask Award
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. Each year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the ...]
for ''The Innocents''
*2013 -
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Libr ...
for ''The Innocents''
*2013 - Harold U. Ribalow Prize for ''The Innocents''
References
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1980 births
British Jewish writers
Writers from London
Living people
Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford