Amy Sackville
Amy Sackville (born 1981 ) is a British writer.
Life
Amy Sackville studied English and Theater Studies at Leeds University (BA) and Exeter College , Oxford (MPhil). She also received a Masters in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College , London .
Her debut novel Still Point was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction and received the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . She won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2014 with the novel Orkney . Your third, well-educated, novel Painter to the King is about the court painter Diego Velázquez .
Sackville teaches creative writing at the University of Kent .
Works
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The stillpoint . London: Portobello Books, 2010
- Pole of calm: Roman . Translation Eva Bonné . Munich: Luchterhand, 2012 ISBN 978-3-630-87335-0
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Orkney . London: Granta, 2014
- Journey to Orkney: Novel . Translation Eva Bonné. Munich: Luchterhand, 2016 ISBN 978-3-630-87435-7
- Painter to the King . London: Granta, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Amy Sackville in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Amy Sackville in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Amy Sackville , website
- Amy Sackville , at Randomhouse
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| SURNAME | Sackville, Amy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |