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Name
  
Keith Ovenden


Role
  
Novelist

Keith Ovenden Ratatui by Keith Ovenden AbeBooks

Books
  
Eine Art Vermachtnis, Des Gluckes Schein. Roman

Education
  
Wanstead High School, University of Oxford, Keele University

Keith Ovenden (born 1943) is an English novelist and biographer.

Ovenden was born and raised in London; he was educated at Wanstead County High School. He went on to study for degrees at the University of Keele (United Kingdom), University of Michigan (United States) and the University of Oxford.

He started his career lecturing at the University of Essex in the Department of Government. Since then he has lived abroad in New Zealand, France and the United States, writing books. He is currently based in Warsaw, Poland.

Books

Academic:

  • Apartheid and International Finance: A Programme for Change, Penguin, 1989. (With Tony Cole.)

    • Novels:

  • Ratatui, 1984.
  • O.E., 1986.
  • The Greatest Sorrow, Penguin, 1998. ISBN 0-241-13977-5. (Set in Oxford.)
  • Quick Bright Things, Hamish Hamilton, 2000. ISBN 0-241-14087-0

    • Biography:

  • A Fighting Withdrawal. The Life of Dan Davin: Writer, Soldier, Publisher (1996).

    • References

    Keith Ovenden Wikipedia
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