Jane Rogers

In 1994 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

• Name — Jane Rogers • Born — 21 July 1952 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Novelist

Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School, a private girls school in Oxford. She then matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English. She graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1974. She went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Leicester in 1976. She now lives in Banbury.

Her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. In November 2015, her adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It starred Holliday Grainger as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain.

• 1994 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

• Year — Title — Award — Category — Result — Ref. • 1985 — Her Living Image — Somerset Maugham Award — — • 1996 — Promised Lands — Women's Prize for Fiction — — — Longlisted • 2000 — Island — Women's Prize for Fiction — — — Longlisted • 2011 — The Testament of Jessie Lamb — Kitschies — Red Tentacle (Novel) — Finalist • Man Booker Prize — — — Longlisted • 2012 — Arthur C. Clarke Award — — • 2013 — Hitting Trees with Sticks — Edge Hill Short Story Prize — — • Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award — — — Longlisted