Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born artist and writer. Her first novel, Mosquito, has been shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards first Novel prize.

Art

Currently a Fellow at Oxford Brookes University,^[1] she has had many exhibitions including "Nel Corpo delle cittá" at the prestigious MLAC ( Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea ) in Rome.^[2]

She became the artist in residence at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford in 2002 and while there, worked on "Happenings in a Museum".^[3]

Books

• Mosquito (ISBN 0007233655) was published on March 5, 2007 by Harper Collins.
• Bone China (ISBN 0007240732), was published in 2008 by the same publisher.
• Brixton Beach (ISBN 9780007301560), was published 2009 by HarperPress.
• The Swimmer (ISBN 9780007301591), published in 2010, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.^[4]

External links

• Official site
• Profile on Guardian Unlimited
• Articles by Roma on her publisher's blog, 5th Estate

References