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Imogen Robertson

b. 1973

English director in different media, a poet and novelist

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About Imogen Robertson

Born 1973. Imogen Robertson is a British writer, director and novelist.

Imogen Robertson is a British director in different media, a poet and novelist.

Biography She was born and grew up in Darlington, England, attending a local comprehensive and a boys' public school in the sixth form. She studied Russian and German at the University of Cambridge.

Her directorial work includes documentaries, TV films, children's television (e.g. Numberjacks for the BBC), radio and museum voiceovers. She has co-written three novels: she wrote King of Kings with Wilbur Smith; she collaborated with US screenwriter Darby Kealey (a writer for Patriot) under the pseudonym 'Imogen Kealey' for Liberation, a World War II thriller about French resistance and SOE operative Nancy Wake, which is currently in movie production with Anne Hathaway as the lead character; she wrote another thriller, The House, with former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson.

She lives in London with her husband.

Published works Instruments of Darkness (2009) Anatomy of Murder (2010) Island of Bones (2011) Circle of Shadows (2012) The Paris Winter (2013) Theft of Life (2014) King of Kings [with Wilbur Smith] (2019) Liberation [with Darby Kealey as 'Imogen Kealey'] (2020) The House [with Tom Watson] (2020)

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1973, Darlington
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Marina Palmer

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Who is Imogen Robertson?

English director in different media, a poet and novelist

When was Imogen Robertson born?

Imogen Robertson was born in 1973 in Darlington.

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Imogen Robertson is a writer, director and novelist.

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Imogen Robertson is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Imogen Robertson

· Wikidata: Q96007564

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