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Dr Elizabeth Drayson
Non-fiction (Academic and Educational)
Biography
Elizabeth Drayson was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in May 1954 and went to school in Dereham. She won a place at Newnham College, Cambridge where she read Spanish and French, before completing her Ph.D. at Cambridge on medieval Spanish literature. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of New Hall and college lecturer at Peterhouse. She has written a number of academic articles and specializes in the medieval Hispanic world.
Elizabeth had a career break of eight years to bring up her daughter
Fiona and had a wonderful time as a member of Winchester Writers'
Circle. She trained and qualified as a professional translator, and
her translation of 'The Book of Good Love', the major poem of the
Spanish Middle Ages, was the first to be published in England. She
is currently finishing an academic monograph on the reception of the
medieval legend of King Roderick and La Cava, and has also written a
novel. She is about to launch her new writing coaching website,
CambridgeWritingAcademy.com, dedicated to writers and students of
all kinds.
Links University of Cambridge Profile
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