Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Osborne-Crowley at the 2025 Adelaide Writers' Week

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a British–Australian writer, living in London. She has published three books, titled I Choose Elena (2019), My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) and The Lasting Harm (2024). Her books have been awarded literary prizes and have been published in several territories and many different languages.

Early life and education

Osborne-Crowley was born in London and raised in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. She was a national gymnastics champion and represented Australia internationally in 2003 and 2004.[1] She graduated with a degree in international studies from the University of Sydney in 2013 and with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of New South Wales in 2018.[2] In 2023, she was accepted into the PhD creative writing program at the University of East Anglia.[3]

Career

Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist.[2] Her first book,'I Choose Elena' was published in 2019. The book is a memoir "in which she recounts her experience of suffering a violent rape as a teenager, leading to years of chronic illness, anxiety and an eating disorder."[4] In My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) she uses "a hybrid of academic prose, memoir and reportage" to tell stories of trauma and recovery.[4] This book won the Somerset Maugham Prize for literature in 2022.[5]

Her third book, The Lasting Harm, was published by HarperCollins in 2024.[6] and has received prize recognition from eight different literary award panels. It won the People's Choice Award at the 2025 New South Wales Literary Awards[7] and the 2025 Davitt Award for Non-Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize for Literature, the 2025 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction,[8] the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction.[9] It was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award.[10] and the Nib Literary Award.

Publications

  • I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Memory and Survival. Mood Indigo Book 2. London: Indigo, 2020. ISBN 9781999683399.[11]
  • My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation. London: Indigo, 2021. ISBN 9781911648130.[12][13]
  • The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. London: Fourth Estate, 2024. ISBN 9780008591182.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "'My body started going rogue': How sexual assault derailed the life of a champion gymnast". ABC Radio. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "About". luciaosbornecrowley.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  3. ^ @@LuciaOC_ (22 July 2023). "This barbie is doing a PhD in creative writing at UEA, supervised by one of her favourite novelists, the totally totally totally brilliant and unbelievably talented @St_Bishop_❤️❤️❤️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ a b "My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – on women's health and trauma". The Guardian. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ^ Reed, Martin (1 June 2022). "Graphic novel wins at the 2022 Society of Authors' Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  6. ^ "The Lasting Harm (Hardback)". Waterstones. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  7. ^ Story, Hannah (19 May 2025). "Nam Le wins major literary award, 16 years after winning for The Boat". ABC News. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  8. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  9. ^ "NSW Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 30 April 2025. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Finalists announced for the 2024 Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism". Walkley Book Award. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  11. ^ "I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley book review". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Author's follow-up tackles trauma". The West Australian. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  13. ^ Mitchell, Natasha (26 November 2021). "In a frank memoir, a writer tackles how trauma shows up in the body". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  14. ^ "The Lasting Harm by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – legacy of abuse". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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