Keith Ovenden is an English

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 novelist and biographer.

Ovenden was born and raised in London

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; he was educated at Wanstead County High School. He went on to study for degrees at the University of Keele (UK

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), University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 (U.S.

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) and the University of Oxford

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.

He started his career lecturing at the University of Essex

University of Essex

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 in the Department of Government. Since then he has lived abroad in New Zealand

New Zealand

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, France

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 and the United States

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, writing books. He is currently based in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Poland

Poland

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Books

Academic:

• Apartheid and International Finance: A Programme for Change, Penguin
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  , 1989. (With Tony Cole.)

Novels:

• Ratatui, 1984.
• O.E., 1986.
• The Greatest Sorrow, Penguin, 1998. ISBN 0-241-13977-5. (Set in Oxford
  Oxford
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  .)
• Quick Bright Things, Hamish Hamilton, 2000. ISBN 0241140870

Biography:

• A Fighting Withdrawal. The Life of Dan Davin: Writer, Soldier, Publisher (1996).