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Biography
Sarah Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
Awards & recognition
- honorary doctorate · 2014
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2009
- CWA Historical Dagger · 2002
- Somerset Maugham Award · 2000
- Lambda Literary Award
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- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Booker Prize · 2009 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2006 · nominated
- Booker Prize · 2002 · nominated
