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Natasha Brown is a British writer who lives in
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. '' Assembly'' (2021), her first novel, won a Betty Trask Award, was Foyles Book of the Year (for Fiction), and was shortlisted for several other American, British, and English-language awards.


Career

Brown spent a decade working in financial services, after studying mathematics at the
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.


''Assembly''

Brown developed '' Assembly'' after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category. It was published in hardcover format in the UK through Hamish Hamilton on 3 June 2021; Penguin also released an ebook and audiobook dictated by Pippa Bennett-Warner. Later she released it via Little, Brown and Company in the US on 14 September 2021, along with an ebook. The novel received acclaim from several publications. According to book review aggregator Book Marks, mainstream critics formed a "Rave" consensus upon its release, based on 14 independent editorials: eight that raved about the book and six that were also positive. Its economy of language is frequently mentioned as one of its strengths, with Brown's tight prose often being described as "precise" and "crisp." '' Literary Hub'''s Emily Temple compiled a comprehensive assessment of critic attitudes towards literature from 2021 calling it an "Ultimate Best Books of 2021 List"; she determined that altogether four mainstream magazines and outlets explicitly named the novel as a critical or important work on their own platforms' end-of-the-year lists. These consisted of ''
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'''s Top Fiction of 2021, '' Publisher Weekly'''s Top 10 Books of 2021, ''
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'''s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2021 and '' The Philadelphia Inquirer'''s Best Books of 2021. It also made an appearance on '' The Atlantic'''s 20 Best Books of 2021. It was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award, Goldsmiths Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, British Book Award for debut book, Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and The Writers' Prize; it also won a Betty Trask Award.


Other works

Her second novel, ''Universality'', was published by Faber & Faber on 13 March 2025.


Awards


Selected publications

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References


External links

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Natasha Brown
at Goodreads * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Natasha Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge Black British women writers British women novelists