Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of five works of non-fiction, ''To the River'', ''The Trip to Echo Spring,'' ''The Lonely City'', ''Everybody'', ''The Garden Against Time'', as well as an essay collection, ''Funny Weather'', and a novel, ''Crudo.'' In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and in 2019, the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ''Crudo''. In 2019 she became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Provided by Wikipedia