Alice Winn

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Alice Winn
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Winn in 2023
Born
Alice Mary Felicity Winn

(1992-12-20) 20 December 1992 (age 32)
Paris, France
Education Marlborough College
St Peter's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Novelist and screenwriter
Notable workIn Memoriam (2023)
Spouse Chris Turner
Children1
Website www.alicewinn.com

Alice Mary Felicity Winn (born 20 December 1992) [1] is an Irish and American novelist and screenwriter, born in France and educated in England. [2] She won the 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel In Memoriam.

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Early life and education

Winn was born and raised in Paris, the daughter of Irish and American parents. [3] [4] She holds Irish citizenship. [5] She has dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was nine years old. [3] Winn was educated at Marlborough College in England. [6] She graduated with a degree in English literature from St Peter's College, Oxford. [4] She has described having a "tenuous grasp" of her identity. [2]

Career

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 Before writing In Memoriam, Winn wrote three unpublished novels, worked on screenplays, and taught homeschooled children. [7]

In 2019, Winn started writing In Memoriam after reading student newspapers published 1913–1919 from her alma mater, Marlborough College. [7] The protagonists, Gaunt and Ellwood, were inspired by her readings of and about Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, respectively. [7]

In 2025, she interviewed the writer Dan Jones at the Edinburgh Book Festival. [8]

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Alice Winn interviewing Dan Jones at the 2025 Edinburgh Book Festival

Personal life

Winn lives in Brooklyn. [4] Her husband, Chris Turner, is a British comedian, and they have a daughter together. [3] [7]

Awards and honors

In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year for In Memoriam. [9] [10] [11] [12] The book was also nominated for the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year and won the Waterstones Novel of the Year. [13] In October 2024 the German translation (Durch das große Feuer) won the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards at the Frankfurt Book Fair. [14]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Winn, Alice (Alice Mary Felicity), 1992-". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 Cummins, Anthony (25 November 2023). "Alice Winn: 'We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. 1 2 3 "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.
  5. ↑ Doyle, Martin (23 March 2024). "Alice Winn on her acclaimed In Memoriam: 'I wrote the novel because I felt alone in a grief from another century'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. 1 2 3 4 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.
  8. ↑ "Dan Jones: A Heart-Pounding Finale". Edinburgh International Book Festival. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Porter (21 March 2023). "British Book Awards: Trade and 'Book of the Year' Shortlists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  10. ↑ British Book Awards livestream 2023 - The Nibbies!, 15 May 2023, retrieved 21 May 2023
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Dalton, Sarah (4 December 2023). "Former Marlborough College student wins Waterstones Novel of the Year". Gazette and Herald .
  14. ↑ "Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2024". Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2024.
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