Olivia Laing

Author of The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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Olivia Laing was awarded the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction and the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for her debut novel Crudo. She writes for the Guardian, frieze, and New York Times among many other publications. She lives in Suffolk, UK. — biography from Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency… (more)

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Works by Olivia Laing

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone 1,040 copies, 30 reviews

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking 382 copies, 16 reviews

Crudo 296 copies, 14 reviews

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface 283 copies, 4 reviews

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency 206 copies, 4 reviews

Everybody: A Book about Freedom 110 copies, 5 reviews

Die einsame Stadt: Vom Abenteuer des Alleinseins (German Edition) 5 copies

The Abandoned Person's Tale (Comma Singles) 2 copies

Zum Fluss: Eine Reise unter die Oberfläche 1 copy

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Also by Olivia Laing

Modern Nature (Introduction, some editions) 284 copies, 1 review

Refugee Tales (Contributor) 31 copies

Slightly Foxed 16: For Pheasant Read Peasant (Contributor) 27 copies, 1 review

First Light: A celebration of Alan Garner (Contributor) 26 copies

Refugee Tales: Volume II (Contributor) 12 copies

Derek Jarman's modern nature (Contributor) 2 copies

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