Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic.
His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018. [1] [2] It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian [3] and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review, [4] and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. [5] His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020, [6] and was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph. [7] Sperling was named among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020. [8]
Sperling was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor in Literature in English from 1900 to the Present Day at University College London. [9] He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine. [10] He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020. [11]
Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic.
His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018. [1] [2] It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian [3] and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review, [4] and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. [5] His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020, [6] and was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph. [7] Sperling was named among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020. [8]
Sperling was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor in Literature in English from 1900 to the Present Day at University College London. [9] He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine. [10] He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020. [11]