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Natasha Brown is a British writer who lives in London. [1] Assembly (2021) is Her first novel, Assembly (2021) won a Betty Trask Award, was Foyles Book of the Year (fiction), and was shortlisted for several other American, British, and English-language awards. [2]
Brown spent a decade working in financial services, after studying mathematics at the University of Cambridge. She developed Assembly after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category. [2] It was published in hardcover format in the US through Little, Brown in 2021, to critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award, Goldsmiths Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, British Book Award for debut book, Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and The Writers' Prize; it also won Betty Trask Award.
Her second novel, Universality, is to be published by Faber & Faber on 13 March 2025. [3] [4]
| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | — | London Writers Award | — | Won | [5] |
| 2021 | Assembly | Books Are My Bag Readers' Award | Fiction | Shortlisted | |
| Foyles Books of the Year | Fiction | Won | |||
| Goldsmiths Prize | — | Shortlisted | |||
| Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
| 2022 | Betty Trask Prize and Awards | Betty Trask Award | Won | [2] | |
| British Book Award | Début Book of the Year | Shortlisted | |||
| Desmond Elliott Prize | — | Longlisted | |||
| Orwell Prize | Political Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
| The Writers' Prize | — | Shortlisted |
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