Liz Jensen (born 1959) is an English novelist. Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford. She first worked as a journalist in the Far East, and then for the BBC as a TV and Radio producer. She then worked as a sculptor in France, where she wrote her first novel, Egg Dancing (1995), returning to London to write Ark Baby (1998), The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002) She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.Her novel The Ninth Life of Louis Drax was adapted into a Canadian film in 2016.