13 0Fecha de nacimiento: 13. Abril 1960
Michel Faber es un escritor de ficción neerlandés nacido el 13 de abril de 1960 en La Haya, Países Bajos. Él y sus padres emigraron a Australia en 1967 dónde asistió a la escuela primaria y secundaria en Melbourne, más específicamente en los suburbios de Boronia y Bayswater. Continuó su formación en la Universidad de Melbourne con estudios de holandés, filosofía, retórica, idioma inglés y literatura inglesa, graduándose en 1980.
Michel trabajó como limpiador y en varios oficios ocasionales, anterior a su entrenamiento como enfermero en Marrickville y los hospitales en los suburbios occidentales de Sídney. Fue enfermero hasta mediados de la década de 1990. En 1993 emigró con su familia y su segunda esposa a Escocia, donde actualmente reside.
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
The Crimson Petal and the White
— Michel Faber
Context: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. This city I am bringing you to is vast and intricate, and you have not been here before. You may imagine, from other stories you've read, that you know it well, but those stories flattered you, welcoming you as a friend, treating you as if you belonged. The truth is that you are an alien from another time and place altogether.
First lines, Ch. 1
— Michel Faber
Context: Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride. The literary scene seems to be divided between "trustworthy" authors who give their fans a Big Mac that's totally unchallenging, and more ambitious authors who treat their readers with high-handed indifference. I want to earn the reader's trust while remaining unpredictable. I take the reader to some dark and emotionally uncomfortable places but never just for the sake of it. And I do care about how you're feeling on your journey. Many people have remarked on how readable and engaging they found The Crimson Petal despite its great length. That wasn't accidental. I thought very carefully about how to keep the reader intimate and awake.
Interview in 3 A.M Magazine (2002) http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_sep/interview_michel_faber.html
— Michel Faber
Context: What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections. A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.
Ch. 1
