Jessie Greengrass (born 1982)[1] is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection.
Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge[2] and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk in 2015.[3] The Independent described the collection as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction."[4] It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[1][2]
In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child.[5] Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis.[2][6] Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction,[7] longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize[8] and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[9]
Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. It follows an unconventional family as they survive a climate apocalypse in a house prepared by the mother, a climate scientist and activist, who knows the floods are coming but does not survive them.[10] It was shortlisted for the 2021 the Costa Novel Award,[11] the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award,[12] and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.[13]
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