Claire Fuller

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Claire Fuller
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Born (1967-02-09) 9 February 1967 (age 57)
Oxfordshire, England
OccupationNovelist
EducationBA 1989, MA 2013
Alma materUniversity of Southampton, University of Winchester
Website
www.clairefuller.co.uk

Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author. She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days , [1] the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, [2] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016. [3] [4] Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. [5] Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground , won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021 [6] and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. [7] Her most recent novel is The Memory of Animals.

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Life and career

Fuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. She began writing fiction at the age of 40 and holds a master's degree in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester. Of the process, she told a fellow writer, "Getting the words down is torture. Once they're written, I love rewriting, editing and polishing." [8]

Our Endless Numbered Days, the first of her five novels, was published in the UK by Penguin Books, and in the United States (Tin House) and Canada (House of Anansi Press). It appeared in translation in a further 12 countries. Swimming Lessons was published by Penguin (UK) in 2017, and was also published in the United States, Canada and a further 6 countries. Bitter Orange, was published in 2018 by Penguin (UK) and in the United States and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 6 countries. Unsettled Ground was published in 2021 in the UK, the US and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 14 countries.

Stories and essays of hers have appeared in England's Sunday Express, [9] Litro, [10] HuffPost, [11] and The Telegraph. [12] [13]

She is married, with two adult children. [14]

Novels

Bibliography

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References

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  2. "BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition 2014". Opening Lines website. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  3. "Royal Academy / Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016". www.pindropstudio.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
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  6. "Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Guardian article. 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
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  11. Fuller, Claire (19 March 2015). "Music And Writing". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  12. Fuller, Claire (27 February 2015). "What it's like to fall in love with a widower". ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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