Sarah Moss (born 1975) [1] is an English writer and academic. She has published six novels, as well as a number of non-fiction works and academic texts. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize. [2] She was appointed Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland with effect from September 2020. [3]
Biography
Sarah Moss was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and at the age of two moved with her family to Manchester, [1] where she lived until at the age of 18, when she went to study at the University of Oxford. [4] [2] During the ten years she spent in Oxford, she earned a BA, Master of Studies and D.Phil in English Literature, and then held a postdoctoral research fellowship. [4] From 2004 to 2009 she was a lecturer at the University of Kent. [4] Following the publication in 2009 of her first novel, Cold Earth, Moss went to teach for a year at the University of Iceland. [1] She then took up a post as Senior Lecturer in Literature and Place at University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall, and subsequently moved to the University of Warwick, becoming Director of the Warwick Writing Programme, teaching creative writing. [4] [5] [6]
Awards
Moss's 2011 novel Night Waking won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. [1] [2] Her non-fiction book Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize in 2013. [2] In 2015 her novel Bodies of Light was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, and her novels Signs for Lost Children and The Tidal Zone were also shortlisted for the same award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Her 2018 novel Ghost Wall was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Polari Prize, and was longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. [4] [7] [8]
Bibliography
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Novels
- Cold Earth (Granta, 2009) [a]
- Night Waking (Granta, 2011) [b]
- Bodies of Light (Granta, 2014) [c]
- Signs for Lost Children (Granta, 2015) [d]
- The Tidal Zone (Granta, 2016) [e]
- Ghost Wall (Granta, 2018) [f]
- Summerwater (Pan Macmillan, 2020) [g]
- The Fell (Pan Macmillan, 2021) [h]
Non-fiction
- The Frozen Ship (2006)
- Scott’s Last Biscuit: the literature of polar exploration (2006) [i]
- Spilling the Beans: reading, writing, eating and cooking in British women’s fiction 1770 – 1830 [j]
- Chocolate: A Global History (2009) [k]
- Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta, 2012) [l]
Critical studies and reviews of Moss' work
- Summerwater
- Robson, Leo (22 March 2021). "Old habits : in Sarah Moss's novel 'Summerwater,' there's no holiday from history". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (5): 69–71. [m]
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- Notes
- ^ Walsh, Megan (11 June 2009). "Cold Earth by Sarah Moss". The Times.
- ^ Welsh, Louise (28 February 2011). "Night Waking". Financial Times.
- ^ Wilson, Fiona (24 May 2014). "Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss". The Times.
- ^ Scholes, Lucy (23 July 2015). "Signs For Lost Children by Sarah Moss: An astute study of the sins of the mother". The Independent.
- ^ Lively, Penelope (9 July 2016). "The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss review – a portrait of parental anxiety". The Guardian.
- ^ Talbot, Margaret (2 January 2019). "Sarah Moss's 'Ghost Wall,' a Slender Novel That Evokes Existential Dread". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Summerwater by Sarah Moss". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ "The Fell by Sarah Moss". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ Capelotti, P. J. (2007). "Review of Scott's last biscuit: the literature of polar exploration, by Sarah Moss". Polar Research. 26 (2). doi: 10.3402/polar.v26i2.6214.
- ^ Grogan, Claire (2012). "Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770–1830". European Journal of English Studies. 16 (1): 83–84. doi: 10.1080/13825577.2012.655162.
- ^ Poole, Steven (19 December 2009). "Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction roundup". The Guardian.
- ^ Jamie, Kathleen (2 November 2012). "Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss – review". The Guardian.
- ^ Online version is titled "In Sarah Moss's fiction, there’s no holiday from history".
References
- ^ a b c d Crown, Sarah (2 July 2016). "Interview: 'You can't abandon your reader in a howling wasteland'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Sarah Moss". Wellcome Book Prize.
- ^ "Acclaimed Author Sarah Moss to join UCD". UCD. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "About". Sarah Moss. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "Professor Sarah Moss". University of Warwick.
- ^ "About | Sarah Moss". Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "A Q&A with Sarah Moss". Women's Prize for Fiction.
- ^ "Sarah Moss". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- English women novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- 21st-century English women writers
- Academics of the University of Warwick
- Academics of University College Dublin
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Academics of the University of Kent
- Academic staff of the University of Iceland
- Academics of the University of Exeter
- English academics of English literature