Tom Crewe (born 1989) is an English novelist, best known for his 2023 debut novel, '' The New Life.'' In April 2023, '' Granta'' included Crewe on their "

Best of Young British Novelists ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

" list, an honour presented every ten years "to the twenty most significant British novelists under forty." ''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...

'' included Crewe in their list of the ten best new novelists of 2023.

Biography

Crewe was born in 1989 in

Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the a ...

. He received a

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...

degree in nineteenth-century British history from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He has served as an editor at the ''

London Review of Books The ''London Review of Books'' (''LRB'') is a British literary magazine published twice monthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews. History The ''London Review of ...

'' since 2015. He has contributed to the ''London Review of Books'', ''The Telegraph'', and other major outlets. His debut novel, ''The New Life'', was published January 2023 by

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and

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. It is also set to be published in French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. It won the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize.

Publications

References

External links

Official website
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