Evie Wyld
Evie Wyld is the author of four novels, The Echoes (Les Échos, Actes Sud 2026), The Bass Rock (Bass Rock, Actes sud 2022), All the Birds Singing (Tous les oiseaux du ciel, Actes Sud 2014), and After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (Après le feu, un murmure doux et léger, Actes Sud 2013). She has also published a graphic memoir with illustrator Joe Sumner, called Everything is Teeth. She lives in South London and is part of the team at an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.
Evie won the Miles Franklin Award and The Stella Prize for fiction in Australia, and is the recipient of The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Prize and the Encore Award. Her novels have been longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, The Sky Arts Breakthrough Award and the James Tait Black Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.