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Rachel Cusk

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English writer (born 1967)

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Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-British novelist and writer.

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Once you have suffered sufficiently, the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous…

On feeling that writing fiction was fake and embarrassing, as quoted in Kate Kellaway "Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was

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Rachel Cusk
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I annoy everybody, not just certain women…I think it is because I'm not interested in the group, only in the individual.

On why her writing might cause a stir, as quoted in Kate Kellaway in "Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was heading into total

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Rachel Cusk
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A journalist recently told me that she had been sent to find out who I was. [...] There seems to be some problem about my identity.

On abandoning being a memoirist, as quoted in Judith Thurman "Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel" The New Yorker (31 July 2017)

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Awards 5

2022Prix Femina étranger
2018Guggenheim Fellowship
2012Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1998Somerset Maugham Award
1993Costa Book Awards

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About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1967 · age 59
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