Rachel Seiffert

Emerging from a bilingual upbringing in Oxford to German and Australian parents, the British writer has built a reputation for exploring how historic upheavals shape ordinary lives. Her debut novel, The Dark Room, earned a Booker Prize shortlist and a Guardian First Book nomination, later winning the Los Angeles Times Prize for First Fiction and a Betty Trask Award; the story also inspired Cate Sh… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources