Michel Faber

Michel Faber (1960) was born in The Hague, grew up in Australia, and now lives in Scotland. He debuted in 1998 with a collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall (Cannongate), which was received to widespread acclaim and crowned with several awards. Faber’s magnum opus is the more than 800-page The Crimson Petal and the White (Cannongate, 2002), a Victorian novel about the prostitute Sugar, which was adapted into a four-part series by the BBC in 2011. Faber will soon publish his literary ode to Charles Dickens, D: A Tale of Two Worlds.