Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She writes for the Guardian , the New York Times , and Frieze , among many other publications. Her first novel, Crudo , was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. Her nonfiction works include To the River , The Trip to Echo Spring , and The Lonely City , which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been translated into sixteen languages. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in...See more

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She writes for the Guardian , the New York Times , and Frieze , among many other publications. Her first novel, Crudo , was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. Her nonfiction works include To the River , The Trip to Echo Spring , and The Lonely City , which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been translated into sixteen languages. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in London, England. See less