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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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Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes2026
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2018
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize2017
Somerset Maugham Award2008
Betty Trask Award2002

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Born 1979 · age 47