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Evie Wyld

エヴィー・ワイルド

Evie Wyld

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1980-01-01 （London, England）
国籍
British, Australian
言語
English
居住地歴
Peckham, South London → Brixton, London → London

経歴

職業
Author, Novelist
活動期間
2009年〜2025年

学歴

Bath Spa University
Creative Writing
学位: BA
卒業年: 2002
国: United Kingdom
BA in Creative Writing
Goldsmiths, University of London
Creative Writing
学位: MA
卒業年: 2004
国: United Kingdom
MA in Creative Writing

受賞歴

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
2009
対象作品: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
結果: Winner
Betty Trask Award
2010
対象作品: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
結果: Winner
Encore Award
2013
対象作品: All the Birds, Singing
結果: Winner
European Union Prize for Literature (UK)
2014
対象作品: All the Birds, Singing
主催: European Union
結果: Winner
Miles Franklin Award
2014
対象作品: All the Birds, Singing
結果: Winner
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2018
主催: Royal Society of Literature
結果: Elected
Stella Prize
2021
対象作品: The Bass Rock
結果: Winner
Barbara Jefferis Award (Shortlist)
2022
対象作品: The Bass Rock
結果: Shortlisted
Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction
2025
対象作品: The Echoes
結果: Shortlisted
Costa Book Awards (Novel)
2013
対象作品: All the Birds, Singing
部門: Novel
結果: Shortlisted

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

2009年 Literary fiction

A novel that interweaves past and present around trauma and family. It explores isolation, memory and complicated familial relationships.

isolationtraumafamilymemory

All the Birds, Singing

2013年 Literary fiction

Tells the story of an Australian sheep farmer living on an English hill farm. It examines isolation, masculinity and the lingering effects of the past.

isolationmasculinitypastoral lifetrauma

The Bass Rock

2020年 Literary fiction

Set in Scotland, the novel follows three women living in different centuries and explores how masculinity and male violence shape their lives.

male violencehistorywomen's continuitytrauma

The Echoes

2024年 Literary fiction

Set in Wangkatha Country in Western Australia and in London, the novel uses a ghostly narrator and multiple time-shifts to consider love, trauma and history, including the impact of the Stolen Generations; it provoked mixed reactions.

lovetraumacolonial historyrepresentation of Indigenous peoples

全著作

  • After the Fire, A Still Small Voice (2009)
  • All the Birds, Singing (2013)
  • The Bass Rock (2020)
  • The Echoes (2024)
  • Short stories (various magazines and anthologies)

作風・主題

文体
realist and lyrical prosefragmented, multi-perspective narrationquiet, sombre imagery
頻出モチーフ
isolationsea and naturememory and the pastmasculinity and violence

健康

  • Viral encephalitis
    幼少期
    The childhood illness is reported to have contributed to an introverted disposition and influenced later themes of vulnerability and corporeality in her work.

評価・遺産

Evie Wyld is a contemporary author recognised in both the UK and Australia, known for novels that address trauma, masculinity and female perspectives. Her major works have won and been shortlisted for significant prizes, making her an important voice in modern literature.

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

引用

  • I'm clearly English.
    出典: Publishers Weekly (interview) (2024年)
  • When I was a kid I used to tell people I was from Australia, to try and sound more interesting — but really I'm from south-east London.
    出典: Granta (interview) (2008年)

豆知識

  • Her mother is Australian and her father English; she holds dual nationality.
  • Spent childhood holidays at her grandparents' sugar cane farm in New South Wales.
  • Married literary agent Jamie Coleman in 2013.
  • Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
  • Official website: http://www.eviewyld.com/