Zoe Pilger
English author and art critic
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Zoe Pilger (/ˈpɪldʒər/; born 1984) is an English author and art critic. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.[1]
Yvonne Roberts (mother)
Zoe Pilger | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) London, England |
| Notable work | Eat My Heart Out |
| Relatives | John Pilger (father) Yvonne Roberts (mother) |
Early life and career
The daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts,[2] Zoe Pilger studied social and political science at Cambridge University.[3] She also gained an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London.[1]
Pilger was art critic of The Independent, a British newspaper, from January 2012 to 2016.[4][5] Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, published by Serpent's Tail in 2014, has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance.[6] It developed from an intensive writing period when the author was 23 and lived in an unfamiliar seaside town for six-months.[7]
She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths.[8] Pilger lives in London.[1]
Awards and nominations
- 2011 - Frieze Writer's Prize[4]
- 2014 - Shortlisted for the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for journalism in art.[5]
- 2015 - Somerset Maugham Award for Eat My Heart Out[9]
- 2015 - Betty Trask Award for Eat My Heart Out[9]
- 2016 - Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature for Eat My Heart Out[10]