Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) [1] is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection.
Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge [2] and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk in 2015. [3] The Independent described the collection as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction." [4] It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. [1] [2]
In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child. [5] Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis. [2] [6] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, [7] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize [8] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [9]
Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. It follows an unconventional family as they survive a climate apocalypse in a house prepared by the mother, a climate scientist and activist, who knows the floods are coming but does not survive them. [10] It was shortlisted for the 2021 the Costa Novel Award, [11] the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, [12] and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. [13]
Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) [1] is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection.
Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge [2] and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk in 2015. [3] The Independent described the collection as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction." [4] It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. [1] [2]
In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child. [5] Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis. [2] [6] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, [7] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize [8] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [9]
Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. It follows an unconventional family as they survive a climate apocalypse in a house prepared by the mother, a climate scientist and activist, who knows the floods are coming but does not survive them. [10] It was shortlisted for the 2021 the Costa Novel Award, [11] the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, [12] and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. [13]