Zoe Pilger

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
Born1984
London, England
Notable workEat My Heart Out
RelativesJohn Pilger (father)
Yvonne Roberts (mother)

Early life and career

The 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

References
  1. "Bio". zoe-pilger. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. "John Pilger: writer of wrongs". Scotsman. Archived from the original on 22 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  3. 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.
  4. Wood, Felicity (5 November 2013). "Zoe Pilger: interview". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. "The Independent". Zoe Pilger. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. Scholes, Lucy (19 February 2014). "The enthusiasms of Zoe Pilger". Bookanista. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  7. "The Pen Ten With Zoe Pilger". PEN America. 2 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  8. "Zoe Pilger". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  9. "Zoe Pilger wins a Somerset Maughan Award and a Betty Trask Award". serpentstail.com. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  10. Boureau, Ella (20 June 2016). "28th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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