Maureen Freely is a novelist, journalist, translator and academic. She was born in the United States of Irish parents, but grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. She now lives in England and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, as well as contributing regular freelance journalism for publications including The Guardian, The Observer and Woman and Home.

Maureen is Orhan Pamuk’s translator, and her own novels include The Other Rebecca (1996) and The Life of the Party (1985).

Maureen’s latest novel, Enlightenment, was published by Marion Boyars in March 2007.

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