1. Michel Faber's book, Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, a non-fiction work about music, came out in October 2023.
11 Facts About Michel Faber
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Michel Faber attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, Philosophy, Rhetoric, English Language and English Literature.
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Michel Faber worked as a cleaner and at various other casual jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney.
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In Scotland, Michel Faber is considered a Scottish author, or at least "Scottish by formation".
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Michel Faber wrote seriously from the age of fourteen, but did not submit his manuscripts for publication.
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Michel Faber's first published book was a collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall, issued in 1998.
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Michel Faber's second published novel was The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, set in Whitby.
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Michel Faber's third published novel was The Courage Consort, about an a cappella vocal group rehearsing a piece of avant-garde music.
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The Crimson Petal and the White is by far his most popular work, but Michel Faber chose never to write a sequel to his bestselling Victorian novel.
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Michel Faber wrote an article for The Sunday Times, published in January 2005.
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In 2006, Michel Faber contributed an essay, "Dreams in the Dumpster, Language Down the Drain", to Not One More Death, a collection of pieces examining US and UK involvement in the Iraq War.