Siân Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire where Pearl is set.
Her first collection of poetry The Missing (Salt, 2009) was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. The collection included the elegy ‘The Send-Off’ which won the 2006 Arvon International Poetry Competition.
Siân lives in Cheshire where she owns and runs the independent bookshop Magpie Books. Her first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023.
Her first collection of poetry The Missing (Salt, 2009) was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. The collection included the elegy ‘The Send-Off’ which won the 2006 Arvon International Poetry Competition.
Siân lives in Cheshire where she owns and runs the independent bookshop Magpie Books. Her first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023.
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