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Alice Winn
Winn in 2023
BornDecember 20, 1992
Paris, France
EducationMarlborough College
University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Novelist and screenwriter
SpouseChris Turner
Children1
Websitewww.alicewinn.com

Alice Winn (born December 20, 1992)[1] is an American novelist and screenwriter. She won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2023 for her novel, In Memoriam.

Personal life and education

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Winn was born and raised in Paris, the daughter of American parents.[2][3] She has dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was nine years old.[2] Winn was educated at Marlborough College,[4] followed by the University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in English literature.[3]

Winn lives in Brooklyn, New York City.[3] Her husband, Chris Turner, is a British comedian, and they have a daughter together.[2][5]

Career

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After graduating, Winn set a goal of writing "a novel a year until I wrote one that was good." Before writing In Memoriam, Winn wrote three unpublished novels, worked on screenplays, and taught homeschooled children.[5]

In 2019, Winn started writing In Memoriam after reading student newspapers published 1913–1919 from her alma mater, Marlborough College.[5] The protagonists, Gaunt and Ellwood, were inspired by her readings of and about Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, respectively.[5]

Awards and honors

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In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam.[6][7] The book also won the 2023 Waterstones Novel of the Year Award.[8] In March 2024 the German translation (Durch das große Feuer) was shortlisted for the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards which will be awarded at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October.[9]

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Winn, Alice (Alice Mary Felicity), 1992-". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  • ^ a b c Harris, Elizabeth A. (5 March 2023). "A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 June 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  • ^ a b c "Alice Winn's In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023". Oxford Mail. 24 August 2023. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  • ^ Anderson, Hephzibah (12 March 2023). "In Memoriam by Alice Winn review – a vivid rendering of love and frontline brutality in the first world war". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  • ^ a b c d Smith, Gwendolyn (5 April 2023). "Alice Winn on her hit novel In Memoriam: 'Queer people were the voices of the First World War'". I. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  • ^ Creamer, Ella (24 August 2023). "Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  • ^ Schaub, Michael (25 August 2023). "Alice Winn Awarded Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  • ^ Dalton, Sarah (4 December 2023). "Former Marlborough College student wins Waterstones Novel of the Year". Gazette and Herald.
  • ^ "Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2024 Nominierungen" (PDF). Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2024.

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