Olivia Laing
““Among the most significant voices of our time.””
© Sophie DavidsonOlivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They are the author of eight books, including The Lonely City (2016), Everybody (2021) and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden Against Time (2024. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts, and in 2018 were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Their books have been translated into twenty-one languages.
Their first novel, Crudo, is a real-time account of the turbulent summer of 2017. It was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Laing writes on art and culture for the Guardian, Financial Times and New York Times, among many other publications. They’ve written catalogue essays on a variety of contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Chantal Joffe. Their collected essays on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020.
Their new novel, The Silver Book, will be published in November 2025. It’s a queer love story and noirish thriller set in the dream factory of cinema in the 1970s, where nothing is as it seems.
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