Olivia Laing
Biography
Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction.
She is the author of TO THE RIVER, THE TRIP TO ECHO SPRING and THE LONELY CITY, which has been translated into 17 languages and sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. She has written an essay collection, FUNNY WEATHER: Art in an Emergency, and her latest book is EVERYBODY: A Book About Freedom.
Her first novel, CRUDO, is a real-time account of the turbulent summer of 2017. It was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller and a New York Times notable book of 2018, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2019 it won the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Laing’s writing about art and culture appears in the Guardian, Financial Times and frieze, among many other publications.
Olivia Laing