Claire Kohda

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Claire Kohda
Born
Claire Lyokho Kohda Hazelton

1990
Other namesClaire Kohda Hazelton
Years active2014–present
PartnerTom Lathan

Claire Lyokho Kohda Hazelton (born 1990) is an English writer, violinist, and illustrator. She is known for her debut novel Woman, Eating (2022).

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Early life

Born to a Japanese mother and an English father, Kohda is from the Thanet District of Kent. [1] [2] She attended Clarendon House Grammar School in Ramsgate. [3]

Career

Writing

Under the names Claire Hazelton or Claire Kohda Hazelton, she began her career writing literary reviews for The Guardian , and then the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator . [4] She also contributed to The F-Word blog [5] Financial Times , Frieze , and Asymptote . [6]

At the end of 2020 and start of 2021, [7] [8] Virago Press and HarperVia (a HarperCollins imprint) acquired the rights Kohda's debut novel Woman, Eating, which was published in spring 2022 to critical acclaim. [9] [10] The novel is a character study on Lydia, "millennial vampire" art school graduate living on her own in London for the first time. Kohda had written the novel during the COVID-19 lockdown when her violin career was put on hold. [11] She wanted to "step away from… reverence for the vampire" and "remove the vampire from the horror genre", taking inspiration from Asian literature that features the supernatural in grounded settings, to dissect human nature "by observing Lydia trying to just simply live her life in our world". [12]

Kohda contributed a short story to the 2023 collection Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed [13] and illustrations to her partner Tom Lathan's 2024 book Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century. [14] She joined the judges' panel of the 2025 Women's Prize Discoveries programme. [15]

Music

Kohda plays a John Edward Betts violin, a Charles Espey bow, and the koto. [16] As a professional violinist, Kohda contributed to Max Richter's Voices and Voices 2. With the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), her contributions appeared on National's 2023 albums First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track . She recorded with the (LCO) at Abbey Road Studios for the Sigur Rós album Átta . [17] [18] She also played with the likes of Jessie Ware, Pete Tong, Ella Eyre, RY X and Deep Purple as well as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Heritage Orchestra. She contributed to the soundtracks of the films The Two Popes (2019), The Matrix Resurrections (2021), and Tár (2022). [19]

Personal life

Kohda is in a relationship with environmental author and journalist Tom Lathan. [14]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

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