Evie Wyld
| Evie Wyld | |
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| Born | Evelyn Rose Strange Wyld 16 June 1980 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Bath Spa University Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Notable awards | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2009) Encore Award (2013) Miles Franklin Award (2014) |
| Spouse | Jamie Coleman (m. 2013) |
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Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld (born 16 June 1980) is an Anglo-Australian author. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2009, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, won the Encore Award in 2013 and the Miles Franklin Award in 2014.
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Early life and education
Born in London in 1980,[1] Evie Wyld grew up on her grandparents' sugar cane farm in New South Wales although she spent most of her adult life in Peckham. In The Guardian she recounts how as a child she suffered from viral encephalitis.[2]
She obtained a BA from Bath Spa University and an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, both in Creative Writing.
Literary career
Wyld is the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Betty Trask Award-winning novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice[3] and All the Birds, Singing. In 2010 she was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the twenty best British authors under the age of 40.[4] In 2011 she was listed by the BBC's Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Writers.[5] In 2013 she was included on the once a decade Granta Best of Young British Novelists List.[6] Her novels have been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize,[7] The Miles Franklin Award,[8] the Commonwealth Writers Prize,[9] the Orange Award for New Writers,[10] the Dublin International IMPAC Prize,[11] The Sky Arts Breakthrough Award,[12] The James Tait Black Prize[13] and The Author's Club Prize[14] and long listed for the Stella Prize[15] and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.[16]
She took over from Nii Parkes as Booktrust's online 'Writer in Residence' in 2010[17] before passing the baton on to Polly Dunbar.[18]
Her second novel, All the Birds, Singing was published in February 2013 and concerns an Australian sheep farmer working on an English hill farm.[19] The book won the 2014 Miles Franklin Award in June 2014.[20]
Personal life
Wyld currently lives in Brixton and works at an independent bookshop in Peckham.[21][22] She married literary agent Jamie Coleman in July 2013.[23]
Awards and honours
- 2013 Granta list of 20 best young writers[6]
- 2013 Costa Book Awards (Novel) shortlisted for All the Birds, Singing[7]
- 2013 Encore Award winner for All the Birds, Singing[24]
- 2014 Miles Franklin Award winner for All the Birds, Singing
- 2014 European Union Prize for Literature, UK, All the Birds, Singing[25]
Bibliography
Short stories
- "What will happen to the dog after we are dead?" (published in Goldfish: An Anthology of Writing from Goldsmiths)[26]
- "The Convalescent's Handbook" (online) first published in Sea Stories, an anthology from the National Maritime Museum[26]
- "The Building Opposite" (appeared in 3:AM Magazine anthology London, New York, Paris)[26]
- "The Whales" (online) from Booktrust
- "Menzies Meat" (online)
- "Free Swim" (online)
- "Six Degrees of Separation" (online)
Novels
- After the Fire, A Still Small Voice (2009), winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award.[27]
- All The Birds, Singing (2013)
References
- ↑ 3:AM Top 5: Evie Wyld » 3:AM Magazine
- ↑ Once upon a life: Evie Wyld
- ↑ Previous winners of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- ↑ Who are the defining literary voices of this country? Lorna Bradbury presents 20 writers under 40 to watch
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- ↑ Booktrust announces new online Writer in Residence
- ↑ Previous wroters in residence
- ↑ Jonathan Cape buys second Wyld novel | The Bookseller
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- ↑ 8 Questions for Evie Wyld
- ↑ Award-winning author Evie Wyld was Booktrust's third online writer in residence
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- ↑ The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
External links
- Official site
- Twitter site
- Interview: Evie Wyld : Working Writers
- Savidge Reads Grills… Evie Wyld
- 11 May 2008|Interviews|Evie Wyld from Granta
- Interview on YouTube about short story writing
- Use dmy dates from August 2014
- Use British English from November 2015
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Australian people of English descent
- Australian women novelists
- English women novelists
- Writers from New South Wales
- Alumni of Bath Spa University
- Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners
- Miles Franklin Award winners
- English short story writers
- Australian short story writers
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century women writers
- English emigrants to Australia
- English people of Australian descent
- People from Peckham
- British women short story writers
- Australian women short story writers
