Rachel Cusk
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Rachel Cusk (born 8 Feb 1967)[1] is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
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Biography
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1974. She read English at New College, Oxford.
She is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'.[2]
Cusk is married to the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz and lives in London with her two daughters.
Bibliography
- Novels
- Saving Agnes (1993)
- The Temporary (1995)
- The Country Life (1997)
- The Lucky Ones (2003)
- In the Fold (2005)
- Arlington Park (2006)
- The Bradshaw Variations (2009)
- Outline (2014)
- Non-fiction
- A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001)
- The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009)
- Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012)
- Introductions & Forewords
- Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan (Penguin, 2008)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Folio Society, 2009)
- The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (Vintage, 2011)
- Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis (Penguin Classics, 2011)
Awards and prizes
- 1993 Whitbread First Novel Award - Saving Agnes[citation needed]
- 1997 Somerset Maugham Award - The Country Life[citation needed]
- 2003 Whitbread Novel Award (shortlist) - The Lucky Ones[citation needed]
- 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist)- Arlington Park[citation needed]
- 2015 Goldmiths Prize (shortlist)
- 2015 Folio Prize (shortlist)
- 2015 Bailey's Prize (shortlist)
- 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize (shortlist) [3]
Further reading
"Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor." In B. Schoene. The Cosmopolitan Novel. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
References
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- ↑ Granta list of Best Young British Novelists, 2003.
- ↑ The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents Its 2015 Shortlist
External links
- EngvarB from January 2014
- Use dmy dates from January 2014
- Articles with unsourced statements from April 2014
- 1967 births
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- English women novelists
- Living people
- Canadian women novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century women writers
- 20th-century women writers
