Who is Jojo Moyes and what is she famous for?
Who is Jojo Moyes and what is she famous for?
Jojo Moyes (born 4 August 1969) is an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist and screenwriter. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association and has been translated into twenty-eight languages.
When did Jojo Moyes win a Romantic Novel Award?
Moyes first won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit and again in 2011 for The Last Letter From Your Lover. She is one of few authors to have received this award twice.
What was the giver of stars about Jojo Moyes?
“ The Giver of Stars is a richly rewarding exploration of the depths of friendship, good men willing to stand up to bad and adult love. Moyes celebrates the power of reading in a terrific book that only reinforces that message.” “Though she made her mark writing contemporary romance, Moyes proves just as adept at historical fiction. . . .
Who was the publisher of Me Before you by Jojo Moyes?
Moyes’ publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, did not take up the 2012 novel Me Before You and Moyes sold it to Penguin. It sold six million copies, went to number one in nine countries, and reinvigorated her back catalogue resulting in three of her novels being on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.
When did Jojo Moyes win the Romantic Novelist Award?
Jojo Moyes has won the romantic novelist association award two times. She won the award for the first time in the year 2003 with her novel Foreign Fruit’ and in 2011 again with her novel The Last Letter From Your Lover’.
When did Jojo Moyes write her first book?
Jojo Moyes published her first novel Sheltering Rain’ in the year 2002 and since then she has written many more books. Jojo Moyes is considered as a romance novelist; however, in most of her books she likes to add some wit and humor into her writing.