Jessie Greengrass (born 1982)[1] is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection An Account of the Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It.
Education and career
editGreengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge[2] and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk in 2015.[3] The Independent described the collection as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction."[4] It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[1][2]
In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child.[5] Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis.[2][6] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction,[7] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize[8] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[9]
Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. It follows an unconventional family as they survive a climate apocalypse in a house prepared by the mother, a climate scientist and activist, who knows the floods are coming but does not survive them.[10] It was shortlisted for the 2021 the Costa Novel Award,[11] the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award,[12] and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.[13]
Bibliography
editShort story collection
edit- An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It (2015)
Novels
edit- Sight (2018)
- The High House (2021)
References
edit- ^ a b "Jessie Greengrass". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ a b c Gilmartin, Sarah. "Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – Eyes wide open". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw". The Independent. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw". The Independent. 24 July 2015. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – a stunning debut novel about minds and bodies". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Hulbert, Ann (3 August 2018). "'Sight' Is an Unusual Novel About Motherhood That's Hard to Put Down". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Shamsie wins Women's Prize for Fiction". BBC News. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Wellcome book prize: gender and identity dominate 2019 longlist". The Guardian. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Flood, Alison (19 August 2019). "Olivia Laing splits James Tait Black prize win with fellow shortlistees". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "The High House: Post-apocalyptic survival in face of rising tides". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Greengrass, Spufford and Hall shortlisted for £10k RSL Encore Award".
- ^ "THE ORWELL PRIZES 2022: THE FINALISTS".
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