Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss (born 1975 in Glasgow ) is a British writer.
Life
Sarah Moss grew up in Manchester . She studied literature and received her PhD from Linacre College in 2001 with a dissertation The round Earth's imagined corners: the influence of voyaging and polar travel writing on English Romanticism . She was a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent from 2004 to 2009 . She worked at the University of Iceland for a year and then at the University of Exeter . She has been teaching creative writing at the University of Warwick since 2013 and lives there.
Moss did research on the role of food, cooking and eating in literature. Her temporal focus is literary romanticism .
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Moss published her first novel in 2009, which thematically followed the topic of her dissertation. Moss' novels have been nominated for the Wellcome Prize several times .
Her works have been translated into several languages. Her novel Gezeitenwechsel , published in German in 2019, portrays a family whose daughter suffers from a rare form of anaphylaxis and in which the parents have swapped classic roles. The novel was hailed as a sensitive portrait of a family suddenly faced with a rare chronic illness.
Books
- The frozen ship: The histories and tales of polar exploration . New York, NY: BlueBridge, 2006
- Scott's last biscuit: The literature of polar travel . Oxford: Signal Books Limited, 2006
- with Alexander Badenoch: Chocolate: A global history . London: Reaction Books, 2009
- Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction . Manchester: MUP 2009
- Cold Earth . London: Granta, 2009
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Night waking . London: Granta, 2011
- Insomniac: Roman . Translation of Nicole Seifert. Hamburg: Mare, 2013 ISBN 978-3-86648-177-0
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Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland . London: Granta, 2012
- Summer bright nights: Our year in Iceland . Translation of Nicole Seifert. Hamburg: Mare, 2014 ISBN 978-3-86648-307-1
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Bodies of Light . London: Granta, 2014
- Where there is light: a novel . Translation of Nicole Seifert. Hamburg: Mare, 2015 ISBN 978-3-86648-233-3
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Signs for Lost Children . London: Granta, 2015
- Between the seas: novel . Translation of Nicole Seifert. Hamburg: Mare, 2016 ISBN 978-3-86648-257-9
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The tidal zone . London: Granta, 2016
- Change of tide: Roman. Translation of Nicole Seifert. Hamburg: Mare, 2019, ISBN 978-3866482814
- Ghost wall . London: Granta, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Sarah Moss in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sarah Moss in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Sarah Moss at perlentaucher.de
- Sarah Moss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sarah Moss , website
- Sarah Moss , at University of Warwick
- Q&A with author Sarah Moss , Financial Times, July 31, 2015 (with photo)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beyond the certainties. femundo.de, May 6, 2019, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moss, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |