Julia Armfield is an English author. She has published a collection of short stories, ''Salt Slow'' (2019), and two novels, ''
Our Wives Under the Sea'' (2022), and ''Private Rites'' (2024).
Early life
Armfield grew up in
Cobham, Surrey
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.
Work
In an interview with Sam Manzella of ''
Them
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Books
* ''Them'' (novel), 3rd volume (1969) in American Joyce Carol Oates' ''Wonderland Quartet''
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'', Armfield said that her debut novel was in part inspired by a wish to explore the "crossover with queer women’s fiction and the sea," adding that the ocean is often used to symbolise both "something forbidden" and something that "can be many things at once."
In an interview with Sam Franzini of ''
Our Culture Mag'', she stated that the novel was in part "about an anticipation of grief and losing someone," adding that part of the horror was from "the clanging bureaucracy of not being able to get an answer."
''Our Wives Under the Sea'' was nominated for the
Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award and
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, winning the
Polari Prize
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in 2023.
Awards
Bibliography
Short story collections
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Novels
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References
Living people
21st-century English novelists
21st-century English women writers
1990 births
Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
English LGBTQ writers
English women novelists
People from Cobham, Surrey
Writers from Surrey
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