Michel Faber

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Michel Faber (April 13, 1960, The Hague, The Netherlands) is a Dutch-born Australian-English writer of fiction. Faber declared he remembers little of his life in Holland, since he moved to Australia with his family at age 7. He has been living in Scotland since 1993 and writes in English.

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Faber's literary debut was a collection of prize-winning short stories called Some Rain Must Fall, published in 1999, the title story of which had previously been published in Matter. His first novel, Under the Skin (2000) was an international hit, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. In 2002 his magnum opus The Crimson Petal and the White, a postmodern, Dickensian tale about a prostitute in Victorian London, came out after he had worked on it for 21 years: it soon turned into an international bestseller. Faber has also written two novellas The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps and The Courage Consort. His works are currently published by Canongate Press (Edinburgh).