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Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She has been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
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Sep 25, 2026
Far Left
The novelist reflected on 70 years of writing and late-life inspiration as her new novel about Daphne du Maurier is published.
The left values Tremain's long career as a counterweight to the commodification of culture, celebrating a writer who keeps producing at 83 while the arts are starved by austerity.