Alice Mary Felicity Winn (born 20 December 1992)[1] is an Irish and American novelist and screenwriter, born in France and educated in England.[2] She won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2023 for her novel In Memoriam.
Alice Winn | |
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| Born | Alice Mary Felicity Winn 20 December 1992 Paris, France |
| Education | Marlborough College St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist and screenwriter |
| Notable work | In Memoriam (2023) |
| Spouse | Chris Turner |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | www.alicewinn.com |
Early life and education
editWinn was born and raised in Paris, the daughter of Irish and American parents.[3][4] She holds Irish citizenship.[5] She has dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was nine years old.[3] Winn was educated at Marlborough College in England.[6] She graduated with a degree in English literature from St Peter's College, Oxford.[4] She has described having a "tenuous grasp" of her identity.[2]
Career
editAfter graduating, Winn set a goal of writing "a novel a year until I wrote one that was good." Before writing In Memoriam, Winn wrote three unpublished novels, worked on screenplays, and taught homeschooled children.[7]
In 2019, Winn started writing In Memoriam after reading student newspapers published 1913–1919 from her alma mater, Marlborough College.[7] The protagonists, Gaunt and Ellwood, were inspired by her readings of and about Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, respectively.[7]
Personal life
editWinn lives in Brooklyn.[4] Her husband, Chris Turner, is a British comedian, and they have a daughter together.[3][7]
Awards and honors
editIn 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam.[8][9] The book was also nominated for the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year and won the Waterstones Novel of the Year.[10] In October 2024 the German translation (Durch das große Feuer) won the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards at the Frankfurt Book Fair.[11]
Publications
edit- In Memoriam. Alfred A. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9780593534564.
References
edit- ^ "Winn, Alice (Alice Mary Felicity), 1992-". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ a b Cummins, Anthony (25 November 2023). "Alice Winn: 'We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ a b c Harris, Elizabeth A. (5 March 2023). "A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 June 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Alice Winn's In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023". Oxford Mail. 24 August 2023. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ Doyle, Martin (23 March 2024). "Alice Winn on her acclaimed In Memoriam: 'I wrote the novel because I felt alone in a grief from another century'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Hephzibah (12 March 2023). "In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – a vivid rendering of love and frontline brutality in the first world war". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d Smith, Gwendolyn (5 April 2023). "Alice Winn on her hit novel In Memoriam: 'Queer people were the voices of the First World War'". I. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (24 August 2023). "Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ Schaub, Michael (25 August 2023). "Alice Winn Awarded Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- ^ Dalton, Sarah (4 December 2023). "Former Marlborough College student wins Waterstones Novel of the Year". Gazette and Herald.
- ^ "Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2024". Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2024.