Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer, who has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes.
Early life
Azzopardi was born in
Cardiff
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to a
Maltese father and a Welsh mother.
She studied creative writing at the
University of East Anglia
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, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an
MA in Film and Television studies from the
University of Derby
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Career
Azzopardi's novel ''The Hiding Place'', is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize in 2000.
It also won the
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish ...
and was shortlisted for the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Uni ...
. Her second novel, ''Remember Me'', was shortlisted for the
Wales Book of the Year
The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Established in 1992, the awards are currently ad ...
. "Winterton Blue" was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories and performs readings for
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radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Azzopardi currently lives in
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