Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is the author of three acclaimed works of nonfiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), and The Lonely City (2016), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has been translated into seventeen languages. Her first novel, Crudo , was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. She writes for the Guardian , New York Times , and frieze , among many other publications. Her collected writing on art,...See more

Olivia Laing is the author of three acclaimed works of nonfiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), and The Lonely City (2016), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has been translated into seventeen languages. Her first novel, Crudo , was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. She writes for the Guardian , New York Times , and frieze , among many other publications. Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather , was published in 2020. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, UK. See less