Zoe Pilger Explained

Zoe Pilger
Birth Date:1984
Birth Place:London, England
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Notablework:Eat My Heart Out
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Relatives:John Pilger (father)
Yvonne Roberts (mother)

Zoe Pilger (; 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]

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.

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.

Awards and nominations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bio. zoe-pilger. 11 January 2020 . 14 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814223345/https://www.zoepilger.co.uk/bio . live.
  2. Web site: John Pilger: writer of wrongs . Scotsman . 22 June 2023 . 22 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230622090710/https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/john-pilger-writer-of-wrongs-2468427 . live.
  3. News: Hoggard. Liz. Jones. Corinne. Lewis. Tim. Kellaway. Kate. Meet the debut authors of 2014. The Observer. 12 January 2014. 11 January 2020 . 29 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230329183726/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/12/debut-authors-2014-observer-fiction . live.
  4. News: Wood. Felicity. Zoe Pilger: interview. The Bookseller. 5 November 2013. 11 January 2020 . 1 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210801210539/https://www.thebookseller.com/profile/zoe-pilger-interview . dead.
  5. Web site: The Independent. Zoe Pilger. 11 January 2020 . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520115358/https://www.zoepilger.co.uk/the-independent . live.
  6. Web site: Scholes. Lucy. The enthusiasms of Zoe Pilger. Bookanista. 8 October 2016. 19 February 2014 . 3 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221203220254/https://bookanista.com/zoe-pilger/ . live.
  7. News: The Pen Ten With Zoe Pilger. PEN America. 2 May 2015. 11 January 2020 . 2 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002234119/https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-with-zoe-pilger/ . live.
  8. Web site: Zoe Pilger. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/author/zoe-pilger . 7 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 8 October 2016.
  9. Web site: Cox . Sarah . Two awards for Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out . Goldsmiths, University of London . 2 April 2024 . en . 2 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240402151729/https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/zoe-pilger-eat-my-heart-out-win/ . live.
  10. Web site: Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted . www.out.com . 2 April 2024 . en . 27 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230127183054/https://www.out.com/art-books/2016/3/08/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-revealed-carrie-brownstein-hasan-namir-truman#toggle-gdpr . live.

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