Claire Fuller

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Claire Fuller
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Born (1967-02-09) 9 February 1967 (age 58)
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 novelist and short story writer.

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Life

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. She is married, with two adult children. [1]

Career

Our Endless Numbered Days , the first of her novels, won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, Our Endless Numbered Days , [2] Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. [3] 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 [4] and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. [5] Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Her next novel, Hunger and Thirst is due for publication in May 2026.

She won the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, [6] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016. [7] [8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Guardian article. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Claire Fuller wins debut-novel Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2018" (PDF). RSL. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Guardian article. 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Flood, Alison (29 April 2021). "Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition 2014". Opening Lines website. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Royal Academy / Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016". www.pindropstudio.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Fuller wins Royal Academy & Pin Drop short story prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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