Roma Tearne

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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]

Personal life

Tearne's spouse is the writer J.B. Bullen.^[4]

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.^[5]
The Road to Urbino (ISBN 9781408703922), published in 2012 by Abacus

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