Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller
Born (1967-02-09) 9 February 1967 (age 57)
Oxfordshire, England
OccupationNovelist
EducationBA 1989, MA 2013
Alma materUniversity of Southampton, University of Winchester
Website
www.clairefuller.co.uk

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.

  1. ^ "Claire Fuller wins debut-novel Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. ^ "BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition 2014". Opening Lines website. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Royal Academy / Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016". www.pindropstudio.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Fuller wins Royal Academy & Pin Drop short story prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2018" (PDF). RSL. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Guardian article. 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  7. ^ Flood, Alison (29 April 2021). "Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.