Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring,The Lonely City, and Everybody, as well as an essay collection, Funny Weather, and a novel, Crudo. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and in 2019, the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crudo. In 2019 she became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1]
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OliviaLaing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, To the River, The...
Alone is a non-fiction book written by OliviaLaing. The book was first published by Picador in 2016 and, like Laing's previous works, it blends research...
Millhauser's, albeit with "more playful and more dramatic surrealism". OliviaLaing writing for The Observer compares the book to an "eminently intriguing...
might be a sequel, which I fear is on the horizon." In The Observer, OliviaLaing wrote, "Over two decades, she has gained a reputation as an elegant anatomiser...
Times bestseller list. The book received wide acclaim from critics, with OliviaLaing writing in The New York Times, "It’s hard to imagine a stronger, more...
Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." OliviaLaing, writing in The Guardian: "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of...
Brockes, review of Sarah The Observer (London, England), October 24, 2010, OliviaLaing, review of Sarah The Telegraph (London, England), October 22, 2010, Claudia...
written for Literary Hub, VICE, and Hyperallergic. In a conversation with OliviaLaing in BOMB magazine Keckler describes the book as being composed largely...
would frequently inspire Edward to start his own. In The Lonely City OliviaLaing discusses Jo's career and how it floundered because Edward was "profoundly...
2021. "In Conversation". March 12, 2021. Laing, Olivia (December 10, 2015). "A Year in Reading: OliviaLaing". The Millions. "Bestsellers List Sunday...
essentially ephemeral" nature of her early works, becomes evident; OliviaLaing in the Guardian, discerns "a faint and beguiling pessimism about love's...
Dao: The Turtlelike. Camera Obscura. January 2003, Vol. 18 Issue 52 OliviaLaing (July 25, 2015). "Joseph Cornell: how the reclusive artist conquered...
original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018. Laing, Olivia (7 July 2007). "Pip Pip: OliviaLaing finds Dickens taking root in a war-torn jungle in...
Kunzru 2014 Hanif Kureishi 2008 Kwame Kwei-Armah 2014 David Kynaston 2010 OliviaLaing 2019 Nick Laird 2013 John Lanchester 2002 Robin Lane Fox 1974 Lee Langley...
Richard Benson The Valley Bloomsbury Richard House The Kills Picador OliviaLaing The Trip to Echo Spring Canongate Gruff Rhys American Interior Hamish...
Acker's influences and artistic trajectory. In 2018, British writer OliviaLaing published Crudo, a novel which references Acker's works and life, and...
Turin: Einaudi. p. 459. Quoted in H. Lee, Virginia Woolf (1996) p. 752 OliviaLaing, To the River (2011) pp. 195-8 Vaticinium ex eventu (or post eventum)...
Princess Margaret (Princess Margaret) Tanika Gupta, Lions and Tigers 2018 OliviaLaing, Crudo Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent...
The Impressionist Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), The Buddha of Suburbia OliviaLaing (born 1977) Charlotte Lamb (1937–2000), romances Charles Lambert (born...
other non-fiction, but notable examples would include To The River by OliviaLaing which follows her walk along the River Ouse and The Old Ways by Robert...
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