Miriam Frank previously published an acclaimed memoir, My Innocent Absence: Exile on Five Continents, which was longlisted for the Ackeley Prize 2011. She was one of the first seni...view moreMiriam Frank previously published an acclaimed memoir, My Innocent Absence: Exile on Five Continents, which was longlisted for the Ackeley Prize 2011. She was one of the first senior lecturers in anaesthesia at London Hospital and was married to the painter Rudolf Kortokraks, Oskar Kokoschka's designated successor at the School of Vision. Schooled in Mexico, she trained as a doctor in New Zealand, lived in Israel, and moved to Islington, London, when she met her husband. She has translated works from the Spanish and currently lives in Battersea, South West London.view less