Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing è una critica culturale britannica, romanziere e scrittrice di grande fama, nota soprattutto per opere come "Crudo", "The Lonely City", "The Trip to Echo Spring" e "To the River". Nata e cresciuta a St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, a Chalfont, Laing studiò inglese all'università del Sussex, ma non completò i suoi studi e si unì a proteste sociali, portandola a vivere selvaggiamente nelle campagne del Sussex.

Prima di diventare un'autrice di fiction, Laing lavorò come Deputy Books Editor presso The Observer tra il 2007 e il 2009. Lavorò anche come critica culturale e artistica per diverse pubblicazioni, tra cui New Statesman, Frieze e The Guardian. Oltre al suo lavoro sulla stampa, Laing ha scritto saggi per vari artisti moderni come Andy Warhol, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans e Chantal Joffe.

Il debutto letterario di Laing, "Crudo", fu pubblicato nel 2018 ed ebbe subito un grande successo di critica. Il romanzo, un resoconto in tempo reale dell'turbulento estate del 2017, fu un bestseller del Sunday Times nella top ten e un libro notevole del New York Times del 2018. È stato finalista per il Goldsmiths Prize e il Gordon Burn Prize e ha vinto il James Tait Black Memorial Prize nel 2019.

Oltre al suo lavoro come romanziere, Laing è anche una nota scrittrice di saggistica. Il suo libro "The Lonely City" è stato tradotto in 17 lingue e ha venduto più di 100.000 copie in tutto il mondo. Le sue raccolte di saggi, "Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency", sono state pubblicate nel 2020. La scrittura di Laing sull'arte e la cultura è apparsa in numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui il Guardian, l'Observer, il Financial Times e Frieze. È Fellow della Royal Society of Literature dal 2018 e ha ricevuto il Windham-Campbell Prize per la saggistica nello stesso anno. L'ultimo libro di Laing, "Everybody: A Book About Freedom", è stato pubblicato nel 2021. Il prossimo libro di Laing, "The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise", sarà pubblicato nel 2024.
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Crudo 2018
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Abandoned Person's Tale 2018
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 To the River 2011
2 The Trip to Echo Spring 2013
3 The Lonely City 2016
4 Funny Weather 2020
5 Everybody 2021
6 The Garden Against Time 2024
Comma Singles Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Fewer Things (By: Adam Marek) 2011
2 The Cave (By: David Gatward) 2011
3 The Skirt (By: Zoe Lambert) 2012
4 Hitting Trees with Sticks (By: Jane Rogers) 2012
5 Crosswords (By: Jonathan Wright) 2013
6 A Wolf (By: Jonathan Wright) 2013
7 The Truth (By: Guy Ware) 2013
8 Sports Leader (By: Jane Rogers) 2013
9 Earthquakes (By: Adam Marek) 2013
10 Tamagotchi (By: Adam Marek) 2013
11 The Truck to Berlin (By: Jonathan Wright) 2013
12 The Virgin and the Soldier (By: Jonathan Wright) 2013
13 Red Enters the Eye (By: Jane Rogers) 2013
14 An Industrial Evolution (By: Adam Marek) 2013
15 Mr Carlton (By: David Constantine) 2013
16 A Paris Story ( By: David Constantine) 2013
17 The Bicycle Express (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle) 2013
18 The Flight into Egypt (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle) 2013
19 Abulafia (By: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Paweł Huelle) 2013
20 Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined (By: Stella Duffy) 2013
21 The Pitch (By: Frank Cottrell Boyce) 2013
22 Morphogenesis (By: Jane Rogers) 2013
23 The Heart of Denis Noble (By: Alison MacLeod) 2013
24 What Kind of Dog (By: Annie Clarkson) 2013
25 Crystal Night (By: Zoe Lambert) 2013
26 My Soul to Keep (By: Martyn Bedford) 2017
27 Red Lights (By: Talal Abu Shawish, Alice Guthrie) 2017
28 Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan (By: Maureen Freely, Sema Kaygusuz) 2017
29 The War of All Against All 2017
30 Easy on The Rose's 2017
31 The Pardon List (By: Sara Maitland) 2018
32 The Mastiff (By: Matthew Holness, John Rees, Mark Stoyle) 2018
33 Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising 2018
34 A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street ( By: Frank Cottrell Boyce) 2018
35 Trying Lydia (By: Andy Hedgecock, Katrina Navickas) 2018
36 Banner Bright (By: Alexei Sayle, Russ Hickman) 2018
37 Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March 2018
38 For the Tape (By: Stuart Evers, Michael Randle) 2018
39 There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room (By: Unknown, Elizabeth Crawford) 2018
40 Spun (By: Laura Hird, Gordon Pentland) 2018
41 Rivers of Blood ( By: David Constantine) 2018
42 May Hobbs (By: Maggie Gee, Sally Alexander) 2018
43 The Stars are in the Sky (By: Lyn Barlow) 2018
44 Exterior Paint (By: Kit de Waal) 2018
45 The Beckhams are in Betty's (By: Martyn Bedford) 2018
46 The Opposite of Drowning (By: Francesca Rhydderch, Ned Thomas) 2018
47 Never Going Underground (By: Juliet Jacques, Em Temple-Malt) 2018
48 Conrad Street ( By: Wojciech Orliński) 2018
49 The Turd Tree (By: Kate Clanchy, Laleh Khalili) 2018
50 Expectant Management 2018
51 Withen ( By: Martyn Bedford) 2018
52 Bed 45 (By: Jacob Ross, Stephen D. Reicher) 2018
53 The Poison Tree ( By: Gregory Norminton) 2018
54 The Abandoned Person's Tale 2018
55 The Gardens of Babylon 2018
56 The Widening Gyre 2018
57 Kindling (By: Jendella Benson) 2018
58 The Sea-God 2018
59 Into Tiny Pieces ( By: Eduardo del Llano) 2018
60 The Hare's Declaration (By: Juris Zvirgzdiņš, Marta Ziemelis) 2018
61 The Birds of Kipsala Island (By: Dace Ruksane, Zanete Vevere Pasqualini) 2018
62 Bird of Paradise (By: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Rania Mamoun) 2018
63 The Slow Man (By: Wajdi Al-Ahdal, William M. Hutchins) 2018
64 The Beginner's Guide to Smuggling (By: Basma Ghalayini, Zaher Omareen, Perween Richards) 2018
65 Storyteller (By: Anoud .) 2018
66 Return Ticket (By: Sawad Hussain, Najwa Binshatwan) 2018
67 The Child in the Lock (By: Robin Ince, Glen Newey) 2018
68 Benzene Dreams (By: Sarah Schofield, Robert Stickgold) 2018
69 From Above (By: Lyn Marven, Larissa Boehning) 2018
70 The Tank (By: Adam Talib, Ahmed al-Malik) 2018
71 The Biggest Bridge in the World 2018
72 Inertia (By: Anneliese Mackintosh, Michela Massimi) 2018
73 Flypaper (By: Simon Armitage) 2018
74 The Dependant's Tale (By: Marina Lewycka) 2018
75 Testicular Cancer vs. the Behemoth ( By: Adam Marek) 2018
76 The Appellant's Tale ( By: David Herd) 2018
77 Change for Low Rixham 2018
78 The Lover's Tale (By: Kamila Shamsie) 2018
79 The Sayer of the Sooth ( By: Martyn Bedford) 2019
80 The Longhand Option (By: Dinesh Allirajah) 2019
81 Passing (By: Elisabeth Jaquette, Rania Mamoun) 2019
82 Living in Hope (By: David Constantine) 2021
Olivia Laing Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Real Families: Stories of Change 2023