Michel Faber

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michel Faber
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Apr 13, 1960(1960-04-13)
Age	64
Birthplace	The Hague
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	South Holland
Horoscope	Aries

Michel Faber Biography

Michel Faber is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on April 13, 1960 in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. This Dutch writer is perhaps most well-known for his novel The Crimson Petal and the White. He also wrote the O. Henry Prize-winning short story “Bye Bye Natalia” and many other highly acclaimed works of short and long fiction.

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Faber was born in The Hague, Netherlands. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967. He attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, Philosophy, Rhetoric, English Language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English Literature. He graduated in 1980. He worked as a cleaner and at various other casual jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney. He nursed until the mid-1990s. In 1993 he, his second wife and family emigrated to Scotland. Faber’s second wife Eva died of cancer in July 2014 and he published a poetry collection, Undying, about this event in 2016.

Faber wrote seriously from the age of fourteen, but did not submit his manuscripts for publication. Many of the short stories that appeared in his debut collection, as well as earlier drafts of The Crimson Petal and the White, were completed during the 1980s and stored away. Another novel completed in this period, A Photograph of Jesus, remains unissued. During the 1990s, with the encouragement of his second wife, Eva, Faber began entering – and winning – short story competitions. This led to him being approached by the Edinburgh-based publishers Canongate Books, who have published his work in the UK ever since.

He was born in The Hague in the Netherlands but spent most of his childhood in Melbourne in Australia. Eva, his second wife, was the one who eventually brought him to Scotland.

Michel Faber Net Worth

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

He graduated from the University of Melbourne, where he worked as a nurse for 10 years before launching his literary career. His first collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall was published in 1998. Under the Skin was his debut novel in 2000.

He was a journalist and novelist as well as a journalist. His writings were published in the Sunday Herald, Scotland on Sunday, and The Sunday Times.

Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction, including his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White. His latest book is a novel for young adults, D: A Tale of Two Worlds, coming out in late 2020

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Who is Michel Faber Dating?

According to our records, Michel Faber married to Eva Youren. As of December 1, 2023, Michel Faber’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2004, as part of the Authors on the Frontline project, Faber travelled to Ukraine with Médecins Sans Frontières, to witness MSF’s intervention in the HIV/AIDS epidemic there. Faber wrote an article for The Sunday Times, published in January 2005.

Facts & Trivia

Michel Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Michel Faber celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.

In 2009, he donated the short story “Walking After Midnight” to Oxfam’s ‘Ox- Tales’ project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. His story was published in the Water collection.