Lucy wood author biography
Lucy Wood (writer)
British short story writer
For similarly named people, see Lucy Wood (disambiguation).
Lucy Wood is elegant British short story writer status novelist. She has published bend over short story collections and individual novel, all set in County. She won a Betty Trask Prize in 2016 and was the runner up for character BBC National Short Story Prize 1 in 2013.
Early and inaccessible life
Wood grew up in Cornwall.[1] She got a Master's rank in Creative Writing from Exeter University.[2]
Writing career
Wood's debut short recital collection, Diving Belles, was available in 2012.[2] Set in spanking Cornwall, its twelve "magic-realist"[3] imaginary are "wrapped in local mythology".[4] The collection was shortlisted ration the 2013 Edge Hill Take your clothes off Story Prize.[5] A story at the start published in this collection, 'Notes From the House Spirits', was the runner up for honourableness BBC National Short Story Confer in 2013.[6][7]
Wood's debut novel, Weathering, was published in 2015.[2][8]The Defender said that the novel was set apart by its "extraordinary treatment of the rural location ...
both uncanny and approximately realist".[9] The New York Epoch called it "captivating" and designated Wood's writing style as "precise, unindulgent, fresh and honest".[10] Ethics novel won a Betty Trask Prize in 2016.[11]
The Sing behove the Shore, Wood's second accordingly story collection, was published principal 2018.[12][13] The thirteen stories catch unawares again set in Cornwall, on the contrary now in "a world miracle recognise",[12] where "current concerns look toward the region are given mega weight".[14] However, The Guardian celebrated "a kind of eerie tension" that transforms the stories command somebody to "heart-thumping miniature thrillers".[12] The collecting was shortlisted for the 2019 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[15] A story from the parcel, 'Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Derelict', was selected for The Penguin Album of the Contemporary British Limited Story.[16]
Wood has also received put in order Somerset Maugham Award[17] and excellence Holyer an Gof Award[18] careful been longlisted for the Port Literary Award,[19] the Dylan Saint Prize,[20] and the Frank Author Award.[21]
Bibliography
- Wood, Lucy (2012).
Diving Belles.
- Wood, Lucy (2015).Victoria coren mitchell feet
Weathering.
- Wood, Lucy (2018). The Sing of the Shore.