Luke Williams (born 1977) [1] is a Scottish author, whose first novel The Echo Chamber won the 2011 Saltire Society's Scottish First Book of the Year award. [2] He co-authored a book with Natasha Soobramanien, titled Diego Garcia , which won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2022. [3] [4] [5] [6] Williams teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck. [7]
Williams grew up in Fife and lives in both London and Edinburgh. [1] He studied history at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews. [8] He completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by W. G. Sebald, who influenced him greatly; Williams contributing a chapter to Saturn's Moons: A W.G. Sebald Handbook . [1]