MaddieMortimer
@MaddieMortimer
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Author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for The Booker Prize
London, England
Joined March 2019
Such exciting stuff, and beautiful words from the judges too. Still feeling so lucky and grateful and speechless. The afterglow continues. https://t.co/ZZxLJTFUOZ
theguardian.com
The ‘sprawling and ambitious’ debut centres on the author’s relationship with her mother, who died of cancer in 2010
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‘It is only under the guise of fiction that I feel I can travel confidently towards any kind of authentic truth’ @MaddieMortimer
theguardian.com
The novelist was in her early teens when her mother, the writer and film-maker Katie Pearson, died of cancer. She reflects on the insights, inspiration and comfort she’s found in journals written...
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The best debuts event in town, and not just because it's FREE (are we mad?). @suzifeay interviews Sarah Thomas (Queen K), Stephen Buoro (The Five Sorrowful Histories of Andy Africa) and @maddiemortimer (Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies). Reserve a space via our website.
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Read more about our four shortlisted author's and the books that inspired them over on the @Waterstones blog. #YoungWriterAward
https://t.co/7hipfLwDc1
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Tonight's the night! Don't miss our four shortlisted authors, @Tom_Benn, @lucyburns66, @MaddieMortimer and Katherine Rundell in conversation with @SebastianFaulks at @WaterstonesPicc from 7:30pm. Remaining tickets available: https://t.co/nMFtGQPFtP
#YoungWriterAward
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"A darkly funny depiction of a mother-daughter relationship." Congratulations to @MaddieMortimer who is longlisted for this year's @dylanthomprize 👏 https://t.co/xs0cNzWjSe
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Many congratulations to both @maddiemortimer and @nellstevens on being longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize! @dylanthomprize
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The best news! Congrats to the 11 other writers, many of whom i am a fan
📚THE 2023 LONGLIST📚 We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's @SwanseaUni Dylan Thomas Prize longlist. What a depth of incredible talent! #SUDTP23 PRESS RELEASE - https://t.co/3jW5cP8FWU
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I cannot WAIT to get stuck in to what I know will be some of the most interesting books of the year...
“Over the past ten years the Goldsmiths Prize has changed the literary landscape” The @GoldsmithsPrize returns for 2023 with a judging panel formed of Helen Oyeyemi, @MaddieMortimer, @ellen_cph & @GoldsmithsEng's @TomLeeStories More on this year's prize👇 https://t.co/Yux4gyPxgY
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My fiction picks for 2022 @TheTimesBooks included The Trees by Percival Everett, Trespasses by @KennedyLoulou Booker winner @ShehanKaru The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida @yazzarf there are more things, @BonnieGarmus @MaddieMortimer @Julia_May_Jonas #Booksof2022
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This is really very cool and great thanks @TIME
🌟 @TIME's Top 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 includes @egangoonsquad's #TheCandyHouse, @aliceedark's #FellowshipPoint, @MaddieMortimer's #MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies, and @jessaminechan's #TheSchoolForGoodMothers! 🌟
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Öyküm Deniz (@oykumdeniiz), Maddie Mortimer'ın (@MaddieMortimer) 2022 Booker Ödülleri'nin uzun listesinde yer alan kitabı Muhteşem Bedenlerimizin Coğrafyası'nı anlattı. Kitap, Timaş Yayınları (@timasyayingrubu) etiketiyle çıktı. https://t.co/6nuQqK2m5w
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Looking forward to @GoldsmithsPrize @NewStatesman winners event tomorrow + to welcoming shortlisted writer @MaddieMortimer to @NCL_English @NCLA_tweets @StudentsNCL debut novelists' panel: 17th November, 7.00-8.15pm @culturelabncl! Free w/registration
'I like the idea that engaging with books that refuse to be categorised & learning to read them on their own terms will make us less judgemental, more enlightened readers of the world around us' @MaddieMortimer talks to @ellen_cph
https://t.co/LSPckD3rIv
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The "striking" #MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies has an "inventive approach to a woman’s terminal-cancer diagnosis...@MaddieMortimer asks readers to think about death as something that 'does not happen in the first or third person, but in the second'” @NewYorker
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We spy 👀 @MaddieMortimer's #MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies, Proulx's #FenBogAndSwamp, @Egangoonsquad's #TheCandyHouse, Ali's #LoveMarriage, Perrotta's #TracyFlickCantWin, @mayhewbergman's #HowStrangeASeason, and @jessaminechan's #TheSchoolForGoodMothers! 👀
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TONIGHT at @GoldsmithsUoL at 7pm! The #GoldsmithsPrize2022 Shortlist Readings! FREE TIX: https://t.co/JH3nQc3XKF
eventbrite.co.uk
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the New Statesman presents the Goldsmiths Prize 2022 Shortlist Readings
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Then on Thursday 20th at 7pm we have the winner of the @DElliottPrize and Booker Prize nominee @MaddieMortimer talking to @djdaisyjohnson about Maddie’s incredible debut ‘Maps of our Spectacular Bodies’ This is going to be an incredible evening https://t.co/68F4O9W1Rc
eventbrite.co.uk
Join the author of the phenomenal debut 'Maps of our Spectacular Bodies' as she speaks with Daisy Johnson about the book.
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Morning All & Calling All Bookworms! 📢📚🪱 The @otsfestival is a go-go. 😃 If you're footloose & fancy free in Sheffers circa three, come on down to the Creative Lounge, where I'll be interviewing the brilliant @MaddieMortimer & Daisy Hildyard 👇 https://t.co/Ds0yOU6ohm
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'A love story ruled by biology, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies takes interiority to a new level' (@Tom_Gatti on Maddie Mortimer's 'extraordinary and ambitious' novel) Visit our website to find out more https://t.co/zbtTjXhLJ7
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We're extremely excited about next week's event with @MaddieMortimer for 'Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies'. Winner of the @DElliottPrize shortlisted for the @GoldsmithsPrize and longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 with @djdaisyjohnson
https://t.co/68F4O9W1Rc
eventbrite.co.uk
Join the author of the phenomenal debut 'Maps of our Spectacular Bodies' as she speaks with Daisy Johnson about the book.
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