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Gwendoline Riley


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Gwendoline Riley was born in Liverpool in 1979. After graduating early from Manchester University she studied on Michael Schmidt's writing course and at the age of 20 was appointed literary editor of City Life magazine. Her first novel, Cold Water, won a Betty Trask Award and she was chosen by the Guardian as one of six best first novelists in 2002.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Cold Water (2002)
   Sick Notes (2004)
   Joshua Spassky (2007)
   Opposed Positions (2012)
   First Love (2017)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   My Phantoms (2021)
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Award nominations
2022 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : My Phantoms
2017 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : First Love
2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : First Love
2017 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : First Love
2002 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : Cold Water


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