Adele Geras
About Author
Adle Geras was born in Jerusalem in 1944. She was educated at Roedean School, Brighton, and St. Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied Modern Languages. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1976 she was a singer, an actress and a French teacher.
Adele says that she writes, entirely for pleasure: my own, and (I hope) my readers. Being a writer allows you to do something Ive always loved: it gives you permission to pretend, to act, to dress up, and to be someone else. Words are important to meI cant draw or paint at all, but I try to make pictures when I work on a novel. I also try to tell a story. Good stories have a magic to them, and all of us who write are hoping to cast a particular sort of spell.
She has published more than seventy books for children and young adults as well as contributing to publications such as Books for Keeps, The Times Educational Supplement and Carousel. Her work has appeared in many countries including the USA, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, South Africa and Norway. Her novel Troy (David Fickling Books) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award 2001.
She has won several prizes, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award (USA) for My Grandmothers Stories and Voyage was shortlisted for the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. Adle is also the author of a collection of poetry for adults, Voices from the Dolls House. In 2000 she received an Arts Council Award to develop her poetry, and won the AE Housman Competition for her poem The Sampler Alphabet.
The Tower Room, the first book of the engaging Egerton Hall trilogy, was reissued in March 2001, the setting for which was inspired by Adles time at Rodean School. The second and third books Watching the Roses and Pictures of the Night were released into Red Fox Definitions later in 2001. The Little Swan books series, which includes Little Swan, Louisa in the Wings, Louisas Secret and A Rival for Louisa, is perfect for beginner ballerinas and follow the adventures of Louisa, her friends and her arch rivals. The latest book in the series is called Good Luck, Louisa! And was published in January 2002.
Other Echoes was published in February 2004 and is about the delicate and sensitive story of a young womans growing self-awareness after revisiting her past.
Adeles new book, Ithaka, tells the story of the women left behind after the end of the Trojan War. The novel has been long listed for The Carnegie Medal.
Adle is married to Norman Geras, who is a professor at the University of Manchester. They have lived in Didsbury, Manchester, since 1967, and have two grown-up daughters. Adle loves reading, going to the movies and anything that goes on in a theatre: plays, operas, musicals, ballets, pantomime. She is a cat-lover and enjoys clothes, food, conversation and libraries.
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