Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Mong Huxham Bradley^{[citation needed]} was born in Walthamstow, East London, to a British father and a Cambodian Khmer mother. Bradley grew up in a small house with a maternal older half-brother and younger twin sisters. The family moved to Essex for more space when Bradley was 10.^[1]

Bradley attended a private secondary school. She graduated from University College London (UCL) with a degree in English literature.^[1]

In 2012, Bradley joined Granta magazine as an editorial assistant.^[2] She was later promoted to junior editor and commissioning editor, and worked for Granta's imprint Portobello.^[3] From 2016 to 2021, she wrote theatre and dance reviews and interviews for Exeunt Magazine, Time Out London, The Stage, and The Guardian.^[4]

Bradley won the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition for "Golden Years"^[5] and the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize for "Doggerland", the latter awarded by the Royal Society of Literature.^[6]

In 2023, Bradley secured a book deal with Sceptre Books, a Hodder & Stoughton imprint, in addition to translations in 13 territories and an adaptation auction between 21 production companies.^[7] Her debut novel The Ministry of Time, a time travel romance based around Franklin's lost expedition, was published in May 2024. Bradley had become inspired watching the AMC series The Terror during lockdown.^[8] Ahead of the novel's release, the BBC commissioned an adaptation penned by Alice Birch, as announced in February.^[9] The Ministry of Time was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize^[10] and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.^[11] Bradley was named one of the 10 best new novelists of 2024 by The Observer.^[12]

In April 2024, Bradley stated that she was working on her next novel, which would involve a retelling of Greek mythology with a neo-noir setting.^[13]

As of May 2024^[update] Bradley was living in East London with her partner Sam, an academic. They intended to wed in summer 2024.^{[14][needs update]}

Novels

• The Ministry of Time (2024)

Short stories and essays

• "A Manifesto of Gym Literature" in minor literature[s] (2015)
• "How to Inflate a Balloon" in Queen Mob's Tea House (2015)
• "Please Help, My Poem is Very Sick" in Queen Mob's Tea House (2015)
• "A Letter of Enquiry Regarding a Possible Purchase" in The Offing (2015)
• "Naming and its Discontents" in Awst Press (2016)
• "Gloomy Sundays" in Somesuch Stories
• "Wendy" in Granta (2016)
• "The Wall" in Somesuch Stories #2 (2017)
• "Virginia Street to Kendall" in Under the Influence #18 (2017)
• "Same-same but different" in Granta (2017)
• "First Refrain from Doing Harm" in Somesuch Stories
• "Bishop of the Bluebells" in The Willowherb Review (2019)
• "The Housemate" in Catapule (2020)
• "London Foxes: You Can't Vaccinate a City Animal for Rudeness" in Electric Literature #182 (2021)
• Work in Extra Teeth #4 (2021)
• "Doggerland" (2022)
• "Golden Years" (2022)

Edited collections

• On Anxiety: An Anthology (2018) (co-edited)

Edited translations

• Swallowing Mercury (2017) by Wioletta Greg, translated by Eliza Marciniak
• The Collection (2019) by Nina Leger, translated by Laura Francis