Alice Winn
Alice Winn | |
|---|---|
 Winn in 2023 | |
| Born | Alice Mary Felicity Winn 20 December 1992 Paris, France |
| Education | Marlborough College; St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Novelist and screenwriter |
| Notable work | In Memoriam (2023) |
| Spouse | Chris Turner |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize |
| Website | alicewinn |
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 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel In Memoriam.
Early life and education
[edit]Winn was born and raised in Paris, France, 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
[edit]After 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 Before writing In Memoriam, Winn wrote three unpublished novels, worked on screenplays, and taught homeschooled children.[7]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]
In 2025, she interviewed the writer Dan Jones at the Edinburgh Book Festival.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Winn lives in Brooklyn, New York.[4] Her husband, Chris Turner, is a British and American comedian, and they have a daughter together.[3][7]
Awards and honors
[edit]In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year for In Memoriam.[9][10][11][12] The book was also nominated for the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year and won the Waterstones Novel of the Year.[13] 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.[14]
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.
- 1 2 Cummins, Anthony (25 November 2023). "Alice Winn: 'We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- 1 2 3 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.
- 1 2 3 "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.
- 1 2 3 4 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.
- ↑ "Dan Jones: A Heart-Pounding Finale". Edinburgh International Book Festival. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ↑ Anderson, Porter (21 March 2023). "British Book Awards: Trade and 'Book of the Year' Shortlists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ↑ British Book Awards livestream 2023 - The Nibbies!, 15 May 2023, retrieved 21 May 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.
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- Living people
- 1992 births
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- 21st-century Irish novelists
- 21st-century Irish women novelists
- Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
- British Book Award winners
- French people of American descent
- French people of Irish descent
- Novelists from Paris
- People educated at Marlborough College
- Writers with dyslexia