Alison Moore (writer)
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Alison Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) Manchester |
| Occupation | Author |
Alison Moore (born 1971) is an English writer. Born in Manchester, she lives in Leicestershire. She is an honorary lecturer in the School of English at the University of Nottingham.[1]
Moore's 2012 debut novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.[2] In reaction to the announcement, Moore commented: "Reaching the shortlist is ridiculously exciting. I keep feeling like I ought to stop daydreaming and get on with something, but it's all real."[3] Chair of the Booker jury, Sir Peter Stothard, described the jury's decision in the following words: "The judges admired The Lighthouse's bleak inner landscape, a temperature control set low and an impressively assured control."[4] The Lighthouse went on to win the 2013 McKitterick Prize.[5]
Before The Lighthouse, Moore had written and published several short stories, including 'Static', shortlisted for the inaugural Manchester Fiction Prize,[6] and 'When the Door Closed, It Was Dark', published as a chapbook by Nightjar Press[7] and included in Best British Short Stories 2011.[8] Much of this work is collected in The Pre-War House and Other Stories,[9] whose title story won first prize in the novella category of the New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes 2009.[10]
Her second novel, He Wants, was published in 2014. Both The Lighthouse and He Wants were Observer Books of the Year.[11][12] Her third novel, Death and the Seaside was published in 2016. In 2018, Moore published her fourth novel, Missing,[13] and a chapter book for children, Sunny and the Ghosts, which became the first in a trilogy, illustrated by Ross Collins.[14] A fifth novel The Retreat was published in 2021,[15] followed in 2022 by a second collection, Eastmouth and Other Stories.[16]
