Zoe Pilger (; born 1984) is an English author and art critic. Her first novel, ''Eat My Heart Out'', won a Betty Trask Award and a

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Early life and career

The daughter of journalists

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and

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, Zoe Pilger studied social and political science at

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. She also gained an MA in Comparative Literature from

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. Pilger was art critic of ''

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'', a British newspaper from January 2012 to 2016. Her first novel, ''Eat My Heart Out'', published by

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in 2014, has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance. It developed from an intensive writing period when the author was 23 and lived in an unfamiliar seaside town for six-months. She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths. Pilger lives in London.

Awards and nominations

*2011 - Frieze Writer's Prize *2014 - Shortlisted for the ''Observer''/Anthony Burgess Prize for journalism in art. *2015 -

for ''Eat My Heart Out'' *2015 - Betty Trask Award for ''Eat My Heart Out'' *2016 - Shortlisted for a

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for Bisexual Literature for ''Eat My Heart Out''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pilger, Zoe 1984 births Living people British women novelists British people of German descent British people of Irish descent British feminist writers