Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born artist and writer. Her first novel, Mosquito, has been shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards first Novel prize.

Art

Currently fellowship at Oxford Brookes University [Oxford Brookes University - [http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/news/item/roma_tearne/] ] , she has had many exhibitions including "Nel Corpo delle cittá" at the prestigious MLAC Gallery in Rome [Luxflux News Article (Italian) [http://www.luxflux.net/MUSEOLAB/MOSTRE/tearne.htm] ] .

She became the artist in residence at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford in 2002 and while there, worked on "Happenings in a Museum" [Ashmolean Museum [http://www.ashmolean.org/happenings/Happ-About.html] ] .

Books

Mosquito (ISBN 0007233655), Roma Tearne's first book was published on March 5th 2007 by Harper Collins. Her second novel, Bone China (ISBN 0007240732), is due to be published in spring 2008 by the same publisher.

External links

* [http://www.romatearne.com Official site]
* [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/author/roma_tearne/profile.html Profile on Guardian Unlimited]

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