Elizabeth Rosner
Elizabeth Rosner
Author
Elizabeth Rosner is a full-time writer, having been an instructor of creative writing and composition at the college level for eighteen years. She is a graduate of Stanford University, the MFA Program at U.C. Irvine, and the University of Queensland in Australia. She has traveled extensively throughout the world, including long-term stays in the Philippines, Israel, Australia, Sweden, and Mexico.
Elizabeth Rosner's first novel, The Speed of Light, was published in hardcover by Ballantine Books in September 2001. The novel was included in Book Sense 76 twice, and was selected as one of Borders Original Voices. Its central theme addresses the effects of the holocaust on the descendants of survivors; it is a story of loss and the redemptive power of storytelling and love. The novel has been translated into nine languages, and has been optioned by actress Gillian Anderson, who plans to make the film her directorial debut. The paperback edition came out in April 2003 and has remained a popular pick among book groups nationwide.
In 2003, the French edition of The Speed of Light was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Femina. In April 2004, the French awarded the novel a newly inaugurated literary prize, called the Prix France Bleu Gironde, at an award ceremony in Bordeaux.
Rosner's prize-winning fiction and poetry have been published in numerous literary journals such as Poetry, Poetry East, Another Chicago Magazine, The Cream City Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her poetry chapbook Gravity, one of the Select Poets Series published by Small Poetry Press, is currently in its fourteenth printing.
The subject of her latest novel, Blue Nude, was originally inspired by her involvement with a project called Acts of Reconciliation, which brought together second generation Germans and Jews in order to confront their shared legacy from World War II. Selected as a Book Sense Notable Pick upon its release in early May 2006, the novel was immediately listed on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and recently named as one of the Chronicle's best books of 2006.
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