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Olivia Laing
British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1977 · age 49
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.
Olivia Laing is read about 139 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Awards
About this person
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
