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    Olivia Laing

    Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Funny Weather and Everybody. Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She lives in Suffolk, UK.

    Olivia Laing

    Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Funny Weather and Everybody. Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She lives in Suffolk, UK.

    Awards

    Winner — James Tait Black Prize, 2018

    Books by Olivia Laing

    • Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

      Olivia Laing

      Hardback, 2020

      "One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction" (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.

    • Crudo: A Novel

      Olivia Laing

      Paperback, 2021

      A New York Times Notable, The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle Best Book of 2018

      “Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.”—The New Yorker

    • Everybody: A Book about Freedom

      Olivia Laing

      Hardback, 2021

      "Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century.

    • Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

      Olivia Laing

      Paperback, 2023

      “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.

    • Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

      Olivia Laing

      E Book

      “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.

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