Samantha Harvey is an author

Author

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. She completed the Bath Spa

Bath Spa University

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 Creative Writing MA course with distinction in 2005, and has also completed postgraduate courses in philosophy

Philosophy

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. Her first novel is The Wilderness (2009), a book about the unravelling effect of Alzheimer’s disease.

Nominations and prizes

• Shortlisted 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...
  
   (2009)
• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
  Man Booker Prize
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   (2009)
• Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
  Guardian First Book Award
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   (2009)
• Winner of the AMI Literature Award (2009)
• Winner of the Betty Trask Prize (2009)

Translations

The Wilderness will be published in the following translations in 2009/2010: Dutch, French, German, Hebrew and Portuguese.