Carole Angier (born 30 October 1943) is an English biographer. She was born in

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and was raised in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

before moving back to the UK in her early twenties. She spent many years as a teacher, including periods at the

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and

Birkbeck College, University of London , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £4.3 m (2014) , budget = £109 ...

. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the

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. She is known for her acclaimed biographies of the writers

Jean Rhys Jean Rhys, ( ; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she mainly resided in England, where she was sent for her ...

and

Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works ...

. The former was shortlisted for the 1991 Whitbread Biography Award, and won the 1991

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. Her biography ''Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald'' was published in 2021.Bloomsbury Publishing
/ref> Angier speaks Italian, French and German, and lives in

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

. She was a friend of

Diana Athill Diana Athill (21 December 1917 – 23 January 2019) was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd. Early life ...

who was her editor for a time.

Publications

* ''Jean Rhys: Life & Work'' (1985) * ''The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi'' (2002) * ''The Story of My Life: refugees writing in Oxford'' (2005) * ''Lyla and Majnon: poems of Hasan Bamyani'' (2008) * ''See How I Land: Oxford poets and exiled writers'' (2009) * (with Sally Cline): ''The Arvon Book of Life Writing'' (2010) * '' Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Angier, Carole 1943 births Living people English biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Writers from London British expatriates in Canada