Claire Fuller | |
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Born | Oxfordshire, England | 9 February 1967
Occupation | Novelist |
Education | BA 1989, MA 2013 |
Alma mater | University of Southampton, University of Winchester |
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Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author. She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days,[1] the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014,[2] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016.[3][4] Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award.[5] Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021[6] and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.[7] Her most recent novel is The Memory of Animals.