Luke Williams (born 1977[1]) is a Scottish author, whose first novel The Echo Chamber won the 2011 Saltire Society's Scottish First Book of the Year award.[2] He later co-wrote a book with Natasha Soobramanien, Diego Garcia, which won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2022.[3] Williams teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck.[4]
Williams grew up in Fife and divides his time between London and Edinburgh.[1] He studied history at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.[5] He completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by W. G. Sebald, who influenced him greatly; Williams contributing a chapter to .[1]