Lucy Ellmann (born 18 October 1956) is an American-born British

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based in

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, Scotland.

Biography

Her first book, '' Sweet Desserts'', won the

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. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic

Richard Ellmann Richard David Ellmann, FBA (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for ''Jame ...

and the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, '' Dot in the Universe'', was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the

Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020) ...

. Retrieved October 08, 2018. Her latest book, ''

Ducks, Newburyport ''Ducks, Newburyport'' is a 2019 novel by British author Lucy Ellmann. The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of a single long sentence, with brief clauses that start with the phrase "the fact that" more ...

'' was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019. It won the 2019

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and the 2020

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for Fiction. Ellmann lectured and led seminars in Creative Writing at the

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between September 2009 and July 2010. Ellmann has been recognised with honours and fellowships, including the Royal Literary Fund; Queen Margaret University 2017/18; University of Dundee 2011/12; Queen Margaret University 2005–07; and been a Hawthornden Fellow and Hawthornden fellowship residence at

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Notable works

*''Sweet Desserts'' (1988) *''Varying Degrees of Hopelessness'' (1991) *''The Spy Who Caught a Cold'' (screenplay, 1995) *''Man or Mango? A Lament'' (1999) *''Dot in the Universe'' (2003) *''Doctors & Nurses'' (2006) *''Mimi'' (2013) *''

'' (2019) *''Things Are Against Us'' (2021)

References

Sources

* Retrieved October 8, 2018.

External links

Lucy Ellmann at Bloomsbury.com

* ttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/17/1052885444952.html Interview from The Daily Telegraph magazine
Believer Book Awards finalists
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