# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olivia-laing
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:08:21.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olivia-laing"
name: "Olivia Laing"
slug: "olivia-laing"
description: "Olivia Laing is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. They are the author of five works of non-fiction—To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City, Everybody, and The Garden Against Time—as well as an essay collection, Funny Weather, and two novels, Crudo and The Silver Book. In 2018, they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and in 2019, the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crudo. In 2019 they became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2025 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts"
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.1
  momentum:             18.44705186353777
  historical:           11.37881733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Olivialanguage"
    handle:    "Olivialanguage"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D2%91"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "أوليفيا لينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Лэнг, Оливия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Olivia Laing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D2%91"
    title: "Олівія Ленґ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olivia_Laingov%C3%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olivia_Laing"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28871669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump