Eliza Clark (British author)

Eliza Clark is a British author.[1][2][3]

Eliza Clark
Born1994 (age 28–29)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
OccupationWriter
Website
elizaclarkauthor.com

Career

Clark attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2019 she was working for Mslexia magazine.[4] She worked for Arvon Foundation as a creative writing facilitator for young people.[5] She runs a Twitter account, GoodreadsBazaar which is dedicated to "nonsensical Goodreads reviews."[1]

In a New York Times interview in 2023, she spoke about being "really online",[6] later telling The Independent that "the internet has been such a big part of my life but it’s taken years of work to disengage from it, and realise that it was actually a really negative influence".[7]

In 2023 she was listed by The Independent as one of a number of young novelists dealign with fictionalise true crime.[8]

Publications

Clark has published two novels:

She had a short story She's Always Hungry published with Granta in 2023.[14]

Awards and grants
  • 2018 - a recipient of a New Writing North Young Writers Talent grant. Her mentor was Matt Wesolowski.
  • 2020 - Boy Parts won Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year[15]
  • 2023 - one of ten recipients of the Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures authors, identified as one of "the most promising female authors under the age of 35 and under who are exciting, boundary-changing, and inspirational".[4]
  • 2023 - named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists[16][17]

References
  1. Ashby, Chloë (22 July 2020). "Eliza Clark: 'I'm from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I'm diverse'" – via The Guardian.
  2. O'Neill, Lauren (5 August 2020). "Ultraviolence, Party Chat and Erotic Photography: The World of Eliza Clark's 'Boy Parts'".
  3. Cummins, Anthony (24 June 2023). "Eliza Clark: 'I'm more primary school teacher than enfant terrible'" – via The Guardian.
  4. "Eliza Clark: 'I've always told stories'". 22 July 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. "Eliza Clark". www.arvon.org. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  6. Stanford, Eleanor (21 September 2023). "A 'Really Online' Writer Looks Beyond the Internet" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. "How Boy Parts writer Eliza Clark became one of our most exciting young novelists". The Independent. 22 October 2023.
  8. "The novelists skewering the ickiness of true crime". The Independent. 17 July 2023.
  9. Key, Alys (30 July 2020). "Eliza Clark's impressive debut, Boy Parts, has shades of Fight Club and American Psycho". inews.co.uk.
  10. "'Can women kill?' asks Eliza Clark in debut novel, 'Boy Parts'". 11 October 2022.
  11. Staff Writer (15 June 2023). "Brand new adaption of acclaimed novel Boy Parts to premiere at Soho Theatre".
  12. "Faber signs Boy Parts author Clark in two-book deal". The Bookseller.
  13. Arbuthnot, Leaf (23 June 2023). "Three schoolgirls torture and kill a fourth – but that's not the whole story" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  14. Clark, Eliza (27 April 2023). "She's always hungry" – via granta.com.
  15. The Publishing Post. "Blackwell's Books of the Year". Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  16. "Granta unveils a Best of Young British Novelists list replete with women writers". The Bookseller.
  17. Shaffi, Sarah (13 April 2023). "Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists" – via The Guardian.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.