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Olivia Laing was born on 14 April, 1977 in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, is a British writer. Discover Olivia Laing's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 14 April 1977
Birthday 14 April
Birthplace Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1941

Walking the length of the Ouse, the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, Laing reflects upon Woolf's life and work and, more generally, upon the relationship between history and place, and the difficulties of biography.

The book was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Best Travel Book Award.

1970

The result is a merging of inner and outer realities, a revelatory exploration of the intense feelings of shame that loneliness can provoke as well as a vivid portrait of 1970s and 1980s New York at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

1977

Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic.

2007

Between 2007 and 2009, Laing was Deputy Books Editor of The Observer.

She writes widely on art and culture, including The Guardian, The New York Times and Financial Times and has written catalogue essays for many contemporary artists, including Derek Jarman, Chantal Joffe, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andy Warhol.

Laing is the author of four books of nonfiction, each mixing cultural criticism and memoir with elements of biography, psychoanalysis, and travel writing.

2011

Her first book, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, was published in 2011.

2013

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (2013), a finalist for both the Costa Biography Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, employs a similar tack.

Travelling across America, Laing explores the difficult relationship between creativity and alcoholism, placing her own experience growing up in an alcoholic family alongside the lives of male alcoholic writers such as John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway.

In the book, she praises literature's "power to map the more difficult regions of human experience and knowledge".

According to the judges of the Windham-Campbell Prize, "this power to map the difficult, the shameful, and the grotesque, as well as the beautiful and transcendent, is inherent in her own work".

2014

Her third book, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, was aided by research Laing undertook as a recipient of the 2014 Eccles British Library Writer Award and was published in 2016.

It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

It has been translated into twenty languages.

Examining her own experience of solitude during a period living in New York, Laing considers how the culturally stigmatised condition of loneliness provides new insights into the work of numerous artists for whom the creative act became a means of exploring solitude and forging companionship, among them Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Henry Darger and David Wojnarowicz.

2017

Laing's first novel, Crudo, is a roman-à-clef about the politically turbulent summer of 2017.

Written in real time over seven weeks, the novel is also a homage to Kathy Acker, on whom the protagonist is based.

2018

She is the author of four works of non-fiction, To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City, and Everybody, as well as an essay collection, Funny Weather, and a novel, Crudo. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and in 2019, the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crudo.

It was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018, and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.

2019

In 2019 she became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Olivia Laing grew up in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

She enrolled at Sussex University to study English, but dropped out to live on a road protest in Dorset.

At the age of 20, she spent three months living alone on an abandoned farm near Brighton, an experience she has described as being formative.

In her twenties, Laing trained as a medical herbalist.

In 2019, Crudo won the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

According to the fiction judge, Dr Alex Lawrie: "This is fiction at its finest: a bold and reactive political novel that captures a raw slice of contemporary history with pace, charm, and wit."

Writing in The New Yorker, Alexandra Schwartz described Crudo as "a work of autofiction that captures the apprehension of the present moment."

In New Statesman, Sarah Ditum wrote that Laing "uses her style like a magician uses sleight-of-hand, palming away a hinted-at revelation while your attention has been directed towards the dazzling arc of her sentences".

2020

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency was published in 2020.

It is a collection of essays, reviews and other published work that Laing wrote for a variety of publications including frieze, BOMB and The Guardian.

Laing's sixth book, Everybody, examines the body and its discontents by way of The Renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.

It explores the liberation movements of the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of a variety of figures, including Nina Simone, Susan Sontag, Andrea Dworkin and Malcolm X.

According to the Financial Times, "Laing's gift for weaving big ideas together with lyrical prose sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin. In other words, she is among the most significant voices of our time."

Laing is currently working on The Garden Against Time, an investigation into the idea of paradise that tells the story of her restoration of a walled garden in Suffolk.

Laing is married to the poet and academic Ian Patterson.

Laing is non-binary.