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Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2013, joint winner of the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2013. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013. Observer Books of the Year 2012. Joint winner of the Hoffman Prize 2011. ‘The most complete Marlowe I’ve ever encountered.’ – Will Self ‘This terrifically accomplished and enjoyable novel… restores one’s faith […]
Ros has two decades of speaking experience, now chiefly on books, creativity, Shakespeare, and Christopher Marlowe. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 (Front Row, Woman’s Hour) and Radio 3 (Free Thinking, The Verb). Her speaker credits include talks at the London Bookfair, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Shakespeare Festival in Oregon, the British Council in Turkey. Podcast guest […]
Praise for The Marlowe Papers (Winner: Desmond Elliott Prize 2013, Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2013, Longlisted: Women’s Fiction Prize 2013. Featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.) “The Marlowe Papers thunders along like an episode of some Elizabethan 24.” Jonathan Barnes in Literary Review “For me, The Marlowe Papers is the best read, […]
Ros Barber is an award-winning writer of both historical and speculative fiction. Her debut novel, The Marlowe Papers, described by the New York Times as “a remarkable book”, was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize, jointly awarded the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, and long-listed for the Women’s Prize for fiction.
Ros Barber has a PhD in English Literature from Sussex University. It was funded by the UK’s AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and granted in May 2011. Her thesis, entitled ‘Writing Marlowe As Writing Shakespeare: Exploring Biographical Fictions” was part creative and part critical. It consisted of the 70,000-word verse novel The Marlowe Papers and […]