Miriam Frank Author

I was born in Spain at the time of the Civil War, spent my early years in Vichy France, received my primary education in Mexico and my secondary school and university education in New Zealand where I graduated in medicine.

I returned to Europe and settled in London, where I obtained my London Fellowship in Anaesthesia and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the Royal London Hospital.

Concurrent with my hospital work and since retiring, I have translated literary works from Spanish into English and launched into my own writing. My autobiography, My Innocent Absence, Arcadia Books, was published in 2010.

I am married and have two daughters.

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“A poignant and beautifully written saga of migrations, which punctuates the history of our times…”
Moris Farhi

“Elegantly written and fascinating.”
Fay Weldon

“Absolutely riveting.”
Amanda Hopkinson

“Frank reviews the period with a fresh eye. This is truly a new story…”
THE INDEPENDENT, UK

Longlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for a literary autobiography of outstanding merit.

“Her voyages have nothing to do with the Paul Theroux school of travel writing … They became the real life characters at Rick’s Café in Casablanca’
Camden New Journal

‘A dramatic and quite gripping autobiography’
Buenos Aires Herald

“Miriam Frank raconta la sua vita in un libro fantastico, commovente”
Italia Sera, Rome

‘Miriam Frank’s history-enforced peregrinations are extraordinary, but much more extraordinary yet is the inner struggle, the quality of the quest and her enquiry into human behaviour.’
Kapka Kassabova

‘It isn’t surprising that physicians often make excellent writers – they are trained to observe. Miriam Frank is one of that great line of physicians turned writers that includes Chekhov, Maugham and Keats. In Miriam’s case the flawless professionalism of the surgery flows seamlessy into flawless prose that has echoes of Lawrence and Proust. This book thoroughly emerges the reader in the human condition from birth to death and back again.’
Edward Wilson