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Gwendoline Riley
British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1979 · age 47
Gwendoline Riley is a British novelist. Her seven novels, published since 2002, have won the Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In 2026, she received the Windham-Campbell Prize for her body of work.
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2026Windham-Campbell Literature PrizesAward2018Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2017Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeAward2008Somerset Maugham AwardAward2002Betty Trask AwardAward1979Born
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Born 1979 · age 47
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Elizabeth ChadwickBoth received Betty Trask Award
Eimear McBrideBoth received Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Tony HarrisonBoth received Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Amit ChaudhuriBoth received Betty Trask Award
Mohsin HamidBoth received Betty Trask AwardDavid ProfumoBoth received Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize