Eliza Clark | |
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| Born | 1994 (age 29–30) Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Eliza Clark is a British author.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
Clark attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2019 she was working for Mslexia magazine.[4] She worked for Arvon Foundation as a creative writing facilitator for young people.[5] She runs a Twitter account, GoodreadsBazaar which is dedicated to "nonsensical Goodreads reviews."[1]
In a New York Times interview in 2023, she spoke about being "really online",[6] later telling The Independent that "the internet has been such a big part of my life but it’s taken years of work to disengage from it, and realise that it was actually a really negative influence".[7]
In 2023 her second book was listed by The Independent in a discussion of recent novels using fiction to examine the true crime genre.[8]
Publications[edit]
Clark has published two novels:
- Boy Parts (2020) pub. Influx Press[9][10] which has also been adapted into a play.[11]
- Penance (2023) pub. Faber and Faber[12][13]
She had a short story She's Always Hungry published with Granta in 2023.[14]
Awards and grants[edit]
- 2018 - a recipient of a New Writing North Young Writers Talent grant. Her mentor was Matt Wesolowski.
- 2020 - Boy Parts won Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year[15]
- 2023 - one of ten recipients of the Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures authors, identified as one of "the most promising female authors under the age of 35 and under who are exciting, boundary-changing, and inspirational".[4]
- 2023 - named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists[16][17]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ashby, Chloë (22 July 2020). "Eliza Clark: 'I'm from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I'm diverse'" – via The Guardian.
- ^ O'Neill, Lauren (5 August 2020). "Ultraviolence, Party Chat and Erotic Photography: The World of Eliza Clark's 'Boy Parts'".
- ^ Cummins, Anthony (24 June 2023). "Eliza Clark: 'I'm more primary school teacher than enfant terrible'" – via The Guardian.
- ^ a b "Eliza Clark: 'I've always told stories'". 22 July 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- ^ "Eliza Clark". www.arvon.org. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ Stanford, Eleanor (21 September 2023). "A 'Really Online' Writer Looks Beyond the Internet" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "How Boy Parts writer Eliza Clark became one of our most exciting young novelists". The Independent. 22 October 2023.
- ^ "The novelists skewering the ickiness of true crime". The Independent. 17 July 2023.
- ^ Key, Alys (30 July 2020). "Eliza Clark's impressive debut, Boy Parts, has shades of Fight Club and American Psycho". inews.co.uk.
- ^ "'Can women kill?' asks Eliza Clark in debut novel, 'Boy Parts'". 11 October 2022.
- ^ Staff Writer (15 June 2023). "Brand new adaption of acclaimed novel Boy Parts to premiere at Soho Theatre".
- ^ "Faber signs Boy Parts author Clark in two-book deal". The Bookseller.
- ^ Arbuthnot, Leaf (23 June 2023). "Three schoolgirls torture and kill a fourth – but that's not the whole story" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Clark, Eliza (27 April 2023). "She's always hungry" – via granta.com.
- ^ The Publishing Post. "Blackwell's Books of the Year". Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- ^ "Granta unveils a Best of Young British Novelists list replete with women writers". The Bookseller.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (13 April 2023). "Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists" – via The Guardian.
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