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Born in 1966 in Wales, Sarah Waters was educated at Canterbury University. She has a PhD in English Literature, for which her field of study was lesbian and gay literature from the late nineteenth century. Her first book, the Victorian lesbian novel Tipping the Velvet (1998), won a Betty Trask Award in 1999 and was adapted into a television serial on BBC2 in 2002. For her second novel, Affinity (1999), Sarah was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2000. Affinity was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Award. Fingersmith, her third novel, was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize, and won the CWA Ellis Peter Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and The South Bank Show Award for Literature. Fingersmith was also televised as a serial on BBC1 in 2005.

Waters has been named Author of the Year three times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. She was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. Her most recent novel, The Night Watch (2006), is shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the 2006 Man Booker Prize. She lives in London.

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