Zoe Pilger (/ˈpɪlər/; born 1984) is an English author and art critic. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.[1]

Zoe Pilger
Born1984
London, England
Notable workEat My Heart Out
RelativesJohn Pilger (father)
Yvonne Roberts (mother)

Early life and career

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The daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts,[2] Zoe Pilger studied social and political science at Cambridge University.[3] She also gained an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London.[1]

Pilger was art critic of The Independent, a British newspaper, from January 2012 to 2016.[4][5] Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, published by Serpent's Tail in 2014, has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance.[6] It developed from an intensive writing period when the author was 23 and lived in an unfamiliar seaside town for six-months.[7]

She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths.[8] Pilger lives in London.[1]

Awards and nominations

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Bio". zoe-pilger. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ "John Pilger: writer of wrongs". Scotsman. Archived from the original on 22 June 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  3. ^ Hoggard, Liz; Jones, Corinne; Lewis, Tim; Kellaway, Kate (12 January 2014). "Meet the debut authors of 2014". The Observer. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b Wood, Felicity (5 November 2013). "Zoe Pilger: interview". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. ^ a b "The Independent". Zoe Pilger. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. ^ Scholes, Lucy (19 February 2014). "The enthusiasms of Zoe Pilger". Bookanista. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  7. ^ "The Pen Ten With Zoe Pilger". PEN America. 2 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Zoe Pilger". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  9. ^ a b Cox, Sarah. "Two awards for Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out". Goldsmiths, University of London. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted". www.out.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2024.