Maddie Mortimer Explained
Maddie Mortimer (born 1996) is a British novelist.
Writing
Mortimer has described her first novel, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, as "an elegy to my mum and to our relationship". Mortimer's mother died of cancer in 2010 and the book focuses on a fictional woman called Lia who has a "shapeshifting cancer inside her body. Moving between Lia’s past and present, the book is a look at memory, mother-daughter relationships, and coming to terms with death". Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies won the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize, which is awarded for a debut novel published in the UK or Ireland. It was also shortlisted for the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.[1]
Personal life
Mortimer studied English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has worked in marketing and as a screenwriter.[2] Her mother was the writer and filmmaker Katie Pearson.[3]
Selected publications
- Book: Mortimer . Maddie . Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies . 2022 . Picador . London . 978-1529069365 .
Awards
References
- Web site: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies . The Booker Prizes . 21 November 2022.
- Book: Mortimer . Maddie . Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies . 2022 . Picador . London . 978-1529069365 .
- ‘I became obsessed’: Maddie Mortimer on the diaries her mother left behind . . Mortimer . Maddie . 2023-07-08.
- Web site: Audrey Magee and Maddie Mortimer longlisted for 2022 Booker Prize . 21 November 2022 . RCW Literary Agency . en.
- Web site: Mortimer wins £10k Desmond Elliott Prize for ‘completely unique’ Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies . 21 November 2022 . The Bookseller . En.
- Web site: Shaffi . Sarah. 1 July 2022. Maddie Mortimer wins the Desmond Elliott prize for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies . 21 November 2021 . The Guardian . en.
- Web site: Ellis . Lizzie . Collaborative novel wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2022 . 21 November 2022 . Goldsmiths, University of London . en.
- Web site: Maddie Mortimer shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2022 . 21 November 2022. RCW Literary Agency . en.
