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Notable work
  
The Innocents

Relatives
  
Erich Segal (father)

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Books
  
The Innocents, The Awkward Age

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Francesca Segal (born 1980) is a British author and journalist. She was brought up in a Jewish community in north-west London where she still lives today. She is best known for her novel, The Innocents, which won several book awards. She is the daughter of American author, Erich Segal.

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Career

Segal studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford before becoming an author and journalist. Her writing has been published in many places including The Guardian, American Vogue, British Vogue, The Observer, and the Financial Times.

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Her first novel, The Innocents was published in 2012 and is based in a Jewish community, similar to the one in which she grew up in. It won several awards and was also longlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Awards

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  • 2012 - Costa Award for a first novel for The Innocents
  • 2013 - Betty Trask Award for The Innocents
  • 2013 - Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for The Innocents
  • 2013 - Harold U. Ribalow Prize for The Innocents

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    References

    Francesca Segal Wikipedia


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