Lucy Ellmann
Encyclopedia
Lucy Ellmann is an Anglo
-American
novelist who now lives in Scotland
.
Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize
. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann
, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen
. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award
.
Ellmann is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent
.
England
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-American
United States
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novelist who now lives in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize
Guardian First Book Award
Guardian First Book Award, issued before 1999 as Guardian Fiction Prize or Guardian Fiction Award, is awarded to new writing in fiction and non-fiction.-History:...
. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann
Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats...
, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen
Todd McEwen
Todd McEwen is an American writer. A graduate of Columbia University, he has been a resident of Scotland since 1981 and is married to novelist Lucy Ellmann. He has published four novels: Fisher's Hornpipe , McX: A Romance of the Dour , Arithmetic and Who Sleeps with Katz...
. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year...
and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award
Believer Book Award
Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final...
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Ellmann is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent
University of Kent
The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...
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Notable works
- Sweet Desserts (1988)
- Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991)
- The Spy Who Caught a Cold (screenplay, 1995)
- Man or Mango? A Lament (1999)
- Dot in the Universe (2003)
- Doctors & Nurses (2006)