Michel Faber
Michel Faber is an author of literary fiction, science fiction and historical fiction. He was born in the Netherlands, but his parents moved to Australia when he was a kid. He attended school in the suburbs of Melbourne and attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, Philosophy, Rhetoric, English Language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English Literature, graduating in 1980. He worked as a cleaner and at various other menial jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney. He worked as a nurse until the mid-1990s. He emigrated to Scotland in 1993, where he still resides with his family.
