Claire Fuller: book + debut = any age

Not everyone writing their first book is under 40. The prizewinning novelist has helped to form a group called Prime Writers, designed to change expectationsA few months before my first novel was published, it seemed that everywhere I looked people were writing about young debut authors. And showing lovely pictures of them, too, with their smooth cheeks, unsaggy jawlines and chins without hairs (unless of course they were male, and then they had full hipster beards).It seemed those three words – book, debut, young – naturally went together, like three-legged race, or ready, steady, go. I was 47, and would turn 48 before Our Endless Numbered Days was published in February this year. I read lists celebrating debut authors under 40 from heavyweight publications such as the New Yorker and Granta, and discovered book prizes whose cut-off age I had passed more than a decade previously. I felt old, as well as saggy. Related: Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller review – a post-apocalyptic debut with a twist Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Fuller: book + debut = any age

Not everyone writing their first book is under 40. The prizewinning novelist has helped to form a group called Prime Writers, designed to change expectationsA few months before my first novel was published, it seemed that everywhere I looked people were writing about young debut authors. And... Continue reading at The Guardian

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