Name Geraldine Bedell Role Novelist | Siblings Elaine Bedell | |
Books The Gulf Between Us, The Handmade House: A Love Story Set in Concrete | ||
Geraldine bedell
Geraldine Bedell is a British novelist and writer for The Observer.
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She drew wide public attention when she claimed she had been disinvited from a planned appearance at the first International Festival of Literature in Dubai, because her novel The Gulf Between Us featured a homosexual sheikh. Writer Margaret Atwood cancelled her scheduled appearance but later retracted when she found out that Bedell had never been invited to the Festival nor had her book been banned. Atwood subsequently made two virtual appearances at the Festival and appeared in person at the 2011 Festival.
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She is married to Charles Leadbeater and is the sister of Elaine Bedell, a senior executive at ITV.
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