Rose Tremain (born 1943 in London) is an English prose writer, author of television and radio plays, and Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, Sadler’s Birthday, was published in London in 1976 by Macdonald and Jane's. It has been followed by nine novels, including The Cupboard (1981), Restoration (1989), The Way I Found Her (1997), Music and Silence (1999), The Colour (2003), and five collections of short stories, the most popular being The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories (1984) and The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (2005). In 2007 Tremain wrote a novel The Road Home. It tells the story of a Polish widower who moves to London in pursuit of a better job in order to support his little daughter and mother.

She won several awards for her work, including Dylan Thomas Short Story Award for The Colonel's Daughter, Sunday Express Book of the Year for Restoration, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Prix Femina Etranger for Sacred Country, Whitbread Novel of the Year Award for Music and Silence, and Orange Broadband Prize for The Road Home. Rose Tremain was also awarded The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2007.

She lives and works in Norfolk.

− compiled by Róża Izydorczyk

The following are links to websites with information about the author and her works:

http://rosetremain.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tremain

http://literature.britishcouncil.org/rose-tremain

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/10/featuresreviews.guardianreview5