Maggie Gee

Maggie Gee has published seventeen books and been translated into fourteen languages. Her pioneering novels are often satires, and she is fascinated by what we are not supposed to do, think or say. She first warned about global warming in 1986, when only scientists believed in it, continuing in Where are the Snows (1991), The Ice People (1997), The Flood (2004) and The Red Children (2022). She also wrote frankly about racism and the aftereffects of empire in The White Family (2002), shortlisted for the Orange [Women’s] Prize and the International Dublin Impact Prize, and in a pair of books set in Uganda and in Britain, My Cleaner (2005) and My Driver (2009). She served for nine years on the Board of ALCS  and was the first woman to chair the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is now a Vice-President. She is a Professor Emeritus of Bath Spa University and has an OBE for services to literature. If she had another life, she would be a painter who danced in her spare time.