Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Funny Weather and Everybody. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 21 languages and her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She’s written catalogue essays on a variety of contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman and Wolfgang Tillmans. Her latest book, The Garden Against Time, is an exhilarating investigation of garden-making and the long and troubled dream of paradise on earth. It was a Sunday Times number one bestseller.

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