Olivia Sudjic

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Olivia Sudjic (* 1988 in London ) is a British author .

biography

Sudjic was born in London , England . She studied English at the University of Cambridge , where she won the EG Harwood English Prize.

In 2017 Sudjic published the novel Sympathie (in the original: Sympathy ), which is about the 23-year-old first-person narrator Alice, who goes on a trip to New York . Through the social network Instagram , she becomes aware of the author Mizuko, in whom she recognizes herself. The novel deals in particular with the influence of digital media on love and friendship as well as the permeation of analog and digital reality. In the English-language media, sympathy was discussed benevolently or euphorically. The New Republic described Sympathy as "the first great Instagram novel". The German translation published in 2017 also received positive reviews.

The essay Exposure was published in 2018 , which deals with Sudjic's anxiety states after the publication of Sympathie . She connects this with the state of constant observation in the digital age and the loss of control over her autofictional novel after its publication. She compares her experiences with those of other female authors and attributes them to male dominance in literary history and contemporary literature.

Works

  • Sympathy . Pushkin Press, London 2017.
    • German: sympathy. No & But, Zurich 2017.
  • Exposure. Peninsula Press, London 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivia Sudjic. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Kaitlin Phillips: In This Tale of Online Intimacy, the Only Wise Characters Are Luddites . In: The New York Times . April 13, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 21, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic, book review: It's a gripping odyssey into one woman's online-addled inner life. April 26, 2017, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hermione Eyre: Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic review - up-to-the-minute debut . In: The Guardian . May 26, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 21, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Josephine Livingstone: The First Great Instagram Novel . In: The New Republic . March 17, 2017, ISSN  0028-6583 ( newrepublic.com [accessed February 21, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: Literature: Hanya Yanagihara and Olivia Sudjic . In: THE WORLD . May 3, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed February 21, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Sudjic, Olivia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH London