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Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert (born 1971) is a British novelist and short story writer.

She was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually. She lives in London.

Seiffert has published five works of fiction to date:

The Dark Room (2001) is a novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, winner of the LA Times Prize for First Fiction and a Betty Trask Award in 2002. The 2012 movie Lore by writer-director Cate Shortland is based on The Dark Room.

Field Study (2004) is a collection of short stories, one of which received an award from International PEN.

Afterwards (2007) is a novel, long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction the same year.

The Walk Home (2014) is a novel set in Glasgow about a family torn apart.

A Boy in Winter (2017) is a novel set during the 1941 German invasion of the Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa.

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