Matthew Sperling
Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic.
His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018.[1][2] It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian[3] and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review,[4] and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019.[5] His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020.[6] It was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph[7] and named as a book that should have been on the Booker Prize shortlist in The Irish Times.[8] Sperling was listed among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020.[9]
Sperling was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor of Creative and Critical Writing at University College London.[10] He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine.[11] He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020.[12]
Works
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Astroturf (riverrun, 2018) ISBN 9781787471153
- Viral (riverrun, 2020) ISBN 9781529401950
Literary Criticism
[edit]- Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780198701088[13][14]
Interviews
[edit]- "Creatives in profile: interview with Matthew Sperling", Nothing in the Rulebook (September 2020)[15]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Astroturf by Matthew Sperling: A brawn cocktail that nails the zeitgeist". irishtimes.com. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Body doubles: Toxic masculinity on steroids". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Best Summer Holiday Reads 2018". The Guardian. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Books of the Year". thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "2019". wellcomebookprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Capitalism, not sex: Grasping for control of the memes of production in Viral by Matthew Sperling and Docile by K. M. Szpara". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ Kerridge, Jake (20 September 2020). "Novel of the week: Viral by Matthew Sperling". The Sunday Telegraph.
- ↑ "Who will win the 2020 Booker Prize?". www.irishtimes.com. 14 November 2020. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
- ↑ "Booker Prize 2020 longlist: where are the new male hotshot novelists?". The Times. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Dr Matthew Sperling". ucl.ac.uk. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Matthew Sperling, Author at Apollo Magazine". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "JUDGES ANNOUNCED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING". orwellfoundation.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ O’Hanlon, Karl (2016). "Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words by Matthew Sperling". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (2): 486–488. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0033. ISSN 1080-6601. S2CID 148342908.
- ↑ James Underwood (2016). "Book Review: Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words by Matthew Sperling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)". The Modern Language Review. 111 (4): 1131. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1131. JSTOR 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1131.
- ↑ "Creatives in profile: interview with Matthew Sperling". nothingintherulebook.com/. Retrieved 2024-02-18.