Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
Daisy Hildyard
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Daisy Hildyard
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1984 （Malton, North Yorkshire, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Malton, North Yorkshire → North Yorkshire (current)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Essayist
- Active Years
- 2013-
- Influenced By
- W. G. Sebald
- Nominations
- Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist (2023)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund Hall, Oxford | — | — | Bachelor (first-class) | — | United Kingdom |
| Queen Mary University of London | — | Early modern scientific literature (doctoral studies) | — | — | United Kingdom |
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Degree:
Bachelor (first-class)
Year of Graduation:
2003
Country:
United Kingdom
Graduated with a first-class degree
Queen Mary University of London
Early modern scientific literature (doctoral studies)
Country:
United Kingdom
Studied for a doctorate (completion unclear)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Somerset Maugham Award | Hunters in the Snow | — | The Society of Authors | Winner |
| 2023 | Encore Award | Emergency | — | Encore Award (organiser not specified in source) | Winner |
Somerset Maugham Award
2014
Work:
Hunters in the Snow
Organization:
The Society of Authors
Result:
Winner
Encore Award
2023
Work:
Emergency
Organization:
Encore Award (organiser not specified in source)
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Encore Award
1 appearances
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Edition 31 (2023) Winner
Works
Major Works
Hunters in the Snow
2013 Novel (fiction)Set in rural Yorkshire, the novel interweaves the narrator's childhood memories with her deceased grandfather's unreliable historical writings, exploring memory, family and regional history.
memoryfamilyrural lifeunreliable history
The Second Body
2017 Essay collectionA collection of four long essays linked by themes of climate and ecological disruption in the Anthropocene, considering body, nature and scientific history alongside personal memory.
climate changenature and the bodyhuman-environment relations
Emergency
2023 Novel (fiction)A narrator in lockdown recalls her semi-rural childhood in the context of global environmental change, reflecting on climate crisis and loss in rural life.
climate changelockdownrural memory
Bibliography
- Hunters in the Snow (2013)
- The Second Body (2017)
- Emergency (2023)
- Overpass (contributed text to photography book, 2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical, poetic prosefragmentary and reflective narrationessayistic blending of scientific history and testimony
- Recurring Motifs
- memorythe bodylandscape and natureclimate and ecological breakdown
Legacy
Daisy Hildyard is a British writer acclaimed for lyrical prose and sustained attention to climate and environment. She has received literary prizes and been shortlisted for major awards, earning recognition in both fiction and essays.
Trivia
- She is married to writer Caleb Klaces.
- Her books The Second Body and Emergency repeatedly address climate change and the human relationship to environment.
- Hunters in the Snow won the 2014 Somerset Maugham Award.