Olivia Laing is the author of four acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), The Lonely City (2016) and Everybody (2021). Her first novel, Crudo , was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her work has been translated into 19 languages. Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian , Financial Times and New York Times . Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency , was published in 2020. She lives in Suffolk. Instagram: @olivialanguage olivialaing.

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