Annabel Abbs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Annabel Abbs
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1964(1964-10-20)
Age	60
Birthplace	Bristol
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Libra

Annabel Abbs Biography

Annabel Abbs is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 20, 1964 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Annabel Abbs (born 20 October 1964) is an English novelist and author.

Streets, Annabel (2019) The Age-Well Program, Piatkus, UK, 2019 ISBN : 978-0349419701.

Abbs’ first non-fiction book, The Age-Well Project, co-written with, Susan Saunders, was published by Piatkus in May 2019 and serialised in The Daily Mail and The Guardian.

In 2019 Abbs was described in The Observer “as one of the best historical novelists today” by literature critic, Alexander Larman.

Frieda was chosen as one of the five novels that will be presented to directors of film in the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was also a the 2018 Times Book of the year (historical fiction) and was described by The Observer as ‘exuberant’ and ‘inspiring’. In the year 2019 Abbs presented his annually scheduled DH Lawrence Birthday Lecture together with Dr Annalise Grice.

Annabel Abbs Net Worth

Annabel Abbs is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Annabel Abbs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her debut novel The Joyce Girl, was published in 2016 . It tells the story of a fictionalized Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce. The novel was awarded The Joyce Girl the Impress Prize for New Writers and The Spotlight First Novel Award, was a finalist in The Bath Novel Award, the Caledonia Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award. Joyce Girl was a finalist for the Caledonia Novel Award. Joyce Girl was a Reader Pick in The Guardian 2016 and was one of the ten novels selected for The 2017. Berlin Film Festival, where it received the coveted Five Stars according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Joyce Girl was published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Turkey, Spain, South America, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. In the Historical Novel Society described The Joyce Girl as “the best 20th century fiction of the year.”

Abbs has been a juror for the Impress Prize for New Writers in 2017 and the year 2019. and also supports a postgraduate student studying creativity at the University of East Anglia each year.

Abbs’s first book was criticised in reviews in the Irish Times and Irish Examiner for the author’s “unsubstantiated speculations” on matters including incest between Lucia Joyce and her brother, and the causes of her mental illness. In A Companion to Literary Biography (ed. Robert Bradford, Wiley Blackwell, 2019), Joyce scholar Professor John McCourt, a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, wrote that “With Abbs, the perverse cycle of interest in Lucia comes full circle. We are back in the territory of fiction fraudulently posing as biography”, and concluded it to be “a prime contender for the worst Joyce-inspired ‘biography’ ever.”

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Annabel Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Annabel Abbs celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.