Lamorna Juliet Ash (born 27 November 1994) is a British writer and education specialist. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021.
Lamorna Ash | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lamorna Juliet Ash 27 November 1994[1] |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Oxford University University College London |
| Notable works | Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town |
| Notable awards | The Somerset Maugham Award (2021) |
Biography
editAsh is from West London; her mother is Cornish.[2] Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School before studying English literature at Oxford University, graduating in 2016. She earned an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London.[3] She worked as an intern at The Times Literary Supplement.[3]
After university, Ash went to Newlyn, a fishing town in Cornwall for one month to learn about their fishing community. She stayed with a local couple, Lofty and Denise, a fishmonger and a ship's chandler.[4][5] She spent a week on the trawler Filadelfia, working with a crew of local fishermen.[6]
Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear, written about Ash's time in Newlyn, was published by Bloomsbury in April 2020.[7][8] In 2021, Ash won the Somerset Maugham Award for her memoir.[9] The book was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'.[10][11] She is currently a freelance writer for the TLS and an English specialist for an education charity in Hackney.[3]
References
edit- ^ Lamorna Ash (27 November 2022). "It's my 28th birthday! Probably I think/say something equivalent to this every year, but I reckon 27 was the most interesting/surprising/exciting 365 I've ever had. Goals for 28 are to moisturise more & practice/expand on my karaoke repertoire". Retrieved 25 September 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Friday Book – Dark, Salt, Clear – Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash". Adventures in London. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ a b c "OPPIDAN EDUCATION — Our Mentor, Lamorna". Oppidan Education. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Bloomsbury buys Cornish fishing village book after TLS article | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Extract: Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish fishing town - Lamorna Ash". TLS. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town - Lamorna Ash; | Foyles Bookstore". Foyles. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (29 December 2019). "Nonfiction to look out for in 2020". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Briefly reviewed in the January 4&11, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.75.
- ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash". BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Reynolds, Gillian. "Radio picks of the week — March 22". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
External links
edit- Lamorna Ash Podcast interview, Russ Roberts of EconTalk