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Olivia Laing

オリヴィア・レイング

Orivia Reingu

プロフィール

性別
non-binary
生誕
1977-04-14 （Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England）
国籍
United Kingdom
言語
English
居住地歴
Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire → New York → Suffolk

経歴

職業
Writer, Novelist, Cultural critic, Deputy Books Editor
活動期間
2011年〜
所属
The Observer, The Guardian
所属団体
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
影響を受けた人物
Virginia Woolf, Kathy Acker
影響を与えた人物
Arundhati Roy, John Berger
ノミネート
Ondaatje Prize shortlist (To the River), Gordon Burn Prize shortlists multiple, Goldsmiths Prize shortlist (Crudo), Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist (The Garden Against Time)

学歴

University of Sussex
School of English / English
期間: ドロップアウト
国: United Kingdom
Enrolled to study English but dropped out

受賞歴

Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
2018
部門: ノンフィクション
主催: Yale University
結果: 受賞
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2019
対象作品: Crudo
部門: フィクション
主催: University of Edinburgh
結果: 受賞
Eccles British Library Writer Award
2014
主催: British Library
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Lonely City

2016年 Non-fiction

Explores the art of being alone, blending memoir of loneliness in New York with artists' works.

LonelinessArtUrban life

Crudo

2018年 Fiction

A roman-à-clef about the turbulent summer of 2017, homage to Kathy Acker.

PoliticsContemporary historyAutofiction

The Trip to Echo Spring

2013年 Non-fiction

Explores writers and drinking, traveling across America.

AlcoholismCreativityMemoir

To the River

2011年 Non-fiction

Walks the Ouse River where Virginia Woolf drowned, reflecting on biography and place.

BiographyHistoryPlace

Everybody

2021年 Non-fiction

Examines the body via Wilhelm Reich and 20th-century liberation movements.

BodyFreedomLiberation

全著作

  • To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (2011)
  • The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (2013)
  • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (2016)
  • Crudo (2018)
  • Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (2020)
  • Everybody: A Book About Freedom (2021)
  • The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (2024)

作品の翻訳

  • The Lonely City translated into 20 languages

作風・主題

文体
Blending cultural criticism and memoirBiographical elementsPsychoanalysisTravel writing
頻出モチーフ
LonelinessThe bodyFreedomAlcoholArt

評価・遺産

A major voice blending cultural criticism, memoir, and biography to map difficult human experiences.

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature

豆知識

  • Non-binary
  • Married to poet Ian Patterson
  • Lived alone for three months on an abandoned farm near Brighton at age 20
  • Trained as a medical herbalist