Claire Askew

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Claire Askew (born 10 March 1986) is a Scottish novelist and poet. [1]

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Biography

Claire Askew was born on 10 March 1986. She attended the University of Edinburgh, completing her undergraduate degree, postgraduate degree, and her PhD, before taking on the role as Writer in Residence at the institution. In 2017 her first two novels were bought by Hodder & Stoughton, [2] with the first, All the Hidden Truths, being released in 2018. [3] Her latest book, How to Burn a Woman, is a collection of poems featuring outcast women through history, [4] including witches, which Askew herself identifies as. [5]

Writing

The first book in her crime fiction series, which follows the work of DI Helen Birch, All the Hidden Truths, won the inaugural Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year in 2019. In addition, the book was the winner of the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, [6] shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and Debut Dagger awards, [7] and longlisted for the 2014 Peggy Chapman-Andrews (Bridport) Novel Award. She has subsequently published What You Pay For and Cover Your Tracks with Hodder & Stoughton. [8]

In 2020 she published Novelista, a writing guide.

Askew has also published three collections of poetry, The Mermaid and the Sailors (Red Squirrel Press, 2011), which won the 2010 Virginia Warbey Poetry Prize, [9] This Changes Things (Bloodaxe, 2016) and How to burn a Woman (Bloodaxe, 2021). This Changes Things was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award, the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Award.

Publications

Fiction

Poetry

Non-fiction

Awards

Fiction

YearNomineeAwardCategoryResultRef
2014All the Hidden Truths Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel AwardLonglisted [1]
2016Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize—Winner [6]
2019 Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the YearWinner [14]
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Shortlisted [7]
John Creasy Debut DaggerShortlisted [15]
2020What You Pay For Gold Dagger Shortlisted [16]

Poetry

Winner

Shortlisted

This Changes Things

Shortlisted

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  3. ↑ "Book review: All The Hidden Truths by Claire Askew". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Bloodaxe Books. "How to burn a woman". Bloodaxe Books. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  5. ↑ Marr, Andrew. "Witches". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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  11. ↑ "Claire Askew | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  12. ↑ Claire, Askew (21 October 2021). How to burn a woman. Bloodaxe Books. p. 80. ISBN   9781780375724.
  13. ↑ Askew, Claire (2 April 2020). Novelista. John Murray Press. ISBN   9781529384840.
  14. ↑ "Claire Askew wins the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of 2019!". Bloody Scotland. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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