Zoe Pilger (/ˈpɪldʒər/; born 1984) is an English author and art critic. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.[1]
Zoe Pilger | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1984 London, England |
| Notable work | Eat My Heart Out |
| Relatives | John Pilger (father) Yvonne Roberts (mother) |
Early life and career
editThe daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts,[2] Zoe Pilger studied social and political science at Cambridge University.[3] She also gained an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London.[1]
Pilger was art critic of The Independent, a British newspaper, from January 2012 to 2016.[4][5] Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, published by Serpent's Tail in 2014, has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance.[6] It developed from an intensive writing period when the author was 23 and lived in an unfamiliar seaside town for six-months.[7]
She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths.[8] Pilger lives in London.[1]
Awards and nominations
edit- 2011 - Frieze Writer's Prize[4]
- 2014 - Shortlisted for the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for journalism in art.[5]
- 2015 - Somerset Maugham Award for Eat My Heart Out[9]
- 2015 - Betty Trask Award for Eat My Heart Out[9]
- 2016 - Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature for Eat My Heart Out[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Bio". zoe-pilger. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "John Pilger: writer of wrongs". Scotsman. Archived from the original on 22 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ Hoggard, Liz; Jones, Corinne; Lewis, Tim; Kellaway, Kate (12 January 2014). "Meet the debut authors of 2014". The Observer. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b Wood, Felicity (5 November 2013). "Zoe Pilger: interview". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b "The Independent". Zoe Pilger. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Scholes, Lucy (19 February 2014). "The enthusiasms of Zoe Pilger". Bookanista. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ "The Pen Ten With Zoe Pilger". PEN America. 2 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Zoe Pilger". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ a b Cox, Sarah. "Two awards for Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out". Goldsmiths, University of London. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ^ "Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted". www.out.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2024.