Lamorna Ash is a British writer and education specialist. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021.
Lamorna Ash | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Oxford University University College London |
| Notable works | Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town |
| Notable awards | The Somerset Maugham Award (2021) |
Biography edit
Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School before studying English literature at Oxford University, graduating in 2016. She earned an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London.[1] She worked as an intern at The Times Literary Supplement.[1]
After university, Ash went to Newlyn, a fishing town in Cornwall for one month to learn about their fishing community. She stayed with a local couple, Lofty and Denise, a fishmonger and a ship's chandler.[2][3] She spent a week on the trawler Filadelfia, working with a crew of local fishermen.[4]
Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear, written about Ash's time in Newlyn, was published by Bloomsbury in April 2020.[5][6] In 2021, Ash won the Somerset Maugham Award for her memoir.[7] The book was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'.[8][9] She is currently a freelance writer for the TLS and an English specialist for an education charity in Hackney.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c "OPPIDAN EDUCATION — Our Mentor, Lamorna". Oppidan Education. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Bloomsbury buys Cornish fishing village book after TLS article | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Extract: Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish fishing town - Lamorna Ash". TLS. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town - Lamorna Ash; | Foyles Bookstore". Foyles. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (29 December 2019). "Nonfiction to look out for in 2020". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Briefly reviewed in the January 4&11, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.75.
- ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash". BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Reynolds, Gillian. "Radio picks of the week — March 22". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
External links edit
- Lamorna Ash Podcast interview, Russ Roberts of EconTalk