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name: Elisabeth Storrs
about: Elisabeth Storrs has a great love for the history, legends and myths of the ancient world. She is the award-winning author of the A Tale of Ancient Rome saga which was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Kate Quinn and Ben Kane. Now she’s hurtling centuries forward to write Treasured, a novel set in WW2 Germany about stolen art, crazy Nazi archaeology, and a race to save the Trojan Gold during the fall of Berlin. She is the founder and program director of the Historical Novel Society Australasia, and a former Deputy Chair of Writing NSW. In 2020, Elisabeth headed the team that introduced the $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize to the ANZ literary calendar. She is also a member of the History Girls.The Wedding Shroud was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin a Elisabeth Storrs has a great love for the history, legends and myths of the ancient world. She is the award-winning author of the A Tale of Ancient Rome saga which was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Kate Quinn and Ben Kane. Now she’s hurtling centuries forward to write Treasured, a novel set in WW2 Germany about stolen art, crazy Nazi archaeology, and a race to save the Trojan Gold during the fall of Berlin. She is the founder and program director of the Historical Novel Society Australasia, and a former Deputy Chair of Writing NSW. In 2020, Elisabeth headed the team that introduced the $100,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize to the ANZ literary calendar. She is also a member of the History Girls.The Wedding Shroud was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin and judged runner-up in the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards for general fiction. The Golden Dice, was judged runner-up in the 2013 Sharp Writ Book Awards, and was a first place category winner in the Chaucer Award as was the third volume, Call To Juno, which was an Editor's Choice in the Historical Novels Review and endorsed by Kate Quinn. It also was a first place category winner in the Chaucer Award in 2017. ...more