Amy Sackville FRSL (born 1981 [1]) is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. [2]
Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University, [1] followed by an MPhil at Oxford's Exeter College [1] before taking a job in the publishing industry. [2] She also studied an MA in creative writing at London's Goldsmiths College. [1]
Her first novel, The Still Point, was published in 2010 and nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction. [2] Her second novel, Orkney, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2014. [3] Her third novel, Painter to the King, about Diego Velázquez and the court of Philip IV of Spain was published in 2018. [4] [5]
In June 2018 Sackville was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. [6]