Trezza Azzopardi

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Trezza Azzopardi is a Welsh writer.

She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there.

Her first novel, The Hiding Place, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000 (a significant accomplishment, since first novels are not often shortlisted for the Booker). Her novel also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, "Remember Me", was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year.

Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich, in the east of England.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Hiding Place, Picador, 2000 ISBN 0871138158
• Remember Me, Picador, 2003 ISBN 0330493477
• Winterton Blue, Grove Press, 2007 ISBN 0802118410

[edit] External References

• Profile at www.contemporarywriters.com
• Profile of media at Guardian Unlimited
• NY times review of Winterton Blue