Olivia Laing

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