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Isabel Waidner | |
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| Born | 14 February 1974 Germany |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
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Isabel Waidner (born 14 February 1974) is a German-British writer and cultural theorist based in London, England. They have written four novels: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (2023, Hamish Hamilton), Sterling Karat Gold (2021, Peninsula Press), We are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019, Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and Gaudy Bauble (2017, Dostoyevsky Wannabe). We are Made of Diamond Stuff was nominated for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and Sterling Karat Gold won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize.[1] They are also the editor of the anthology Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (2018, Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and have written for numerous publications including Granta, Frieze, the Cambridge Literary Review, and AQNB.[2][3]
Along with artist Richard Porter, Waidner is the co-founder of the Queers Read This, an event series hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). They were the host and curator of the ICA's literary talk series, This Isn't a Dream, which was live-streamed fortnightly via Instagram Live between January and May 2021.[4][5][6]
- ^ Waidner, Isabel (25 June 2019). "Class, queers & the avant-garde in new British writing with Caspar Heinemann & Isabel Waidner | | atractivoquenobello". www.aqnb.com. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "'This is Publishing and Writing as Borderline Activism' — An Interview With Isabel Waidner, by Thom Cuell". minor literature[s]. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ Waidner, Isabel. "Seeing into the future through the deepwater horizons of Linda Stupart & Carl Gent's All Of Us Girls Have Been Dead For So Long | | atractivoquenobello". www.aqnb.com. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "ICA | This isn't a Dream: Conversations with Writers". www.ica.art. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Isabel Waidner (Creative Writing) shortlisted for Goldsmiths Prize 2021". All Things SED. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Queers Read This". archive.ica.art. Retrieved 24 November 2021.