Claire Fuller
Claire Fuller | |
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| Born | 9 February 1967 Oxfordshire, England |
| Education | University of Southampton (B.A.) University of Winchester (M.A.) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Website | www |
Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English novelist and short story writer.
Life
[edit]Fuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. She began writing fiction at the age of 40 and holds a master's degree in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester. She is married, with two adult children.[1]
Career
[edit]Our Endless Numbered Days, the first of her novels, won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize.[2] Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award.[3] Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021[4] and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.[5] Her next novel, Hunger and Thirst has been published by Fig Tree/Penguin Books Ltd in May 2026 and won much acclaim. It's a "blend of social realism and gothic horror" says the Guardian reviewer.[6] Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages.
She won the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014,[7] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016.[8][9]
Bibliography
[edit]- Our Endless Numbered Days (2015)
- Swimming Lessons, (2017)
- Bitter Orange, (2018)
- Unsettled Ground, (2021)
- The Memory of Animals, (2023)
- Hunger and Thirst, (2026)
References
[edit]- ↑ Guardian article. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ↑ "Claire Fuller wins debut-novel Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ↑ "The RSL Encore Award 2018 – the shortlist". Royal Society of Literature. 2018. Archived from the original on 14 June 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ↑ "Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Guardian article. 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (29 April 2021). "Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ↑ Lara Feigel: Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller review – a blend of social realism and gothic horror, theguardian.com at 22 May 2026, retrieved at 5 july 2026
- ↑ "BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition 2014". Opening Lines website. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ↑ "Royal Academy / Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016". www.pindropstudio.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ↑ "Fuller wins Royal Academy & Pin Drop short story prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
