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The Fire Gospel (Myths, The)
Vanilla Bright like Eminem
The Crimson Petal and The White
Name Pronunciation
Michel Faber: Mih-shell Fay-ber

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Michel Faber was born in Holland. He moved with his family to Australia in 1967 and has lived in Scotland since 1992. His short story 'Fish' won the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition in 1996 and is included in his first collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories (1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.

His first novel, Under the Skin (2000), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.  He has also won the Neil Gunn Prize and an Ian St James Award.

Other fiction includes The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (1999) and The Courage Consort (2002), The Crimson Petal and the White (2002).  His collection of stories, The Apple (2006) continues the tale of some of the characters from The Crimson Petal and the White.  A further collection of short stories, Vanilla Bright Like Eminem was published in 2007.  A further novel, The Fire Gospel, was published in the UK in 2008 and the USA in January 2009.
This biography was last updated on 12/28/2008.
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