Daisy Hildyard (born 1984)[1] is an English novelist and essayist. She has won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Encore Award.

Early life

Hildyard was born in Malton, North Yorkshire.[2][3] She gained a first-class degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 2003, and then studied for a doctorate in early modern scientific literature at Queen Mary, University of London.[4]

Career

Hildyard's debut novel, Hunters in the Snow, was published in 2013. Set in rural Yorkshire, it interweaves memories of the narrator's childhood with her deceased grandfather's unreliable historical writings. Reviewers noted the influence of W.G. Sebald.[5][6][7] The novel won the 2014 Somerset Maugham Award, given to writers under the age of 35.[8]

In her next novel, Emergency, a narrator in lockdown recalls her semi-rural childhood in the context of global environmental change.[9][10] It was shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize[11] and won the 2023 Encore Award, given for a second novel.[12]

In 2017, Hildyard's essay collection, The Second Body (2017), was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Its four long essays are linked by themes of climate and ecology disruption in the Anthropocene.[13][14][15]

In 2022, Hildyard contributed the text to Overpass, a book of photographs exploring stiles and fences in the British countryside by landscape photographer and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow Sam Contis.[16][17]

Hildyard has also published fiction in The New Yorker,[18] essays and fiction in Granta,[13] and reviews in The New York Review of Books[19] and the Times Literary Supplement.[20]

Personal life

Hildyard is married to writer Caleb Klaces[4] (winner of a 2012 Eric Gregory Award[21]). She lives with her husband and children in North Yorkshire.[3][22]

Select publications

Novels

  • Hildyard, Daisy (2013). Hunters in the Snow. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224097444.
  • Hildyard, Daisy (2023). Emergency. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1913097813.

Essays

  • Hildyard, Daisy (2017). The Second Body. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1910695470.

References

  1. ^ "Daisy Hildyard". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Who's Who: Daisy Hildyard". York Authors. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Daisy Hildyard". Fitzcarraldo Editions. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Daisy Hildyard: Writer". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  5. ^ Thorpe, Adam (19 August 2013). "Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Book review: Hunters in the Snow, By Daisy Hildyard". The Independent. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  7. ^ Wilson, Angus (13 July 2013). "The history girl". The Spectator. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards: Past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Detritus of a lifetime". The TLS. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  10. ^ Moss, Sarah (4 May 2022). "Emergency by Daisy Hildyard review – a dark pastoral". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  12. ^ Spanoudi, Melina (15 June 2023). "Hildyard wins £10,000 Encore Award for Emergency". The Bookseller. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Daisy Hildyard". Granta. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  14. ^ "The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard review – from winter floods to the origin of life". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Book Review: The Second Body". Atticus Review. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  16. ^ Contis, Sam; Hildyard, Daisy. Overpass. Aperture. ISBN 978-1597115391.
  17. ^ Frailey, Stephen. "Sam Contis". Artforum. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  18. ^ Hildyard, Daisy (15 December 2024). "Revision [short story]". The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  19. ^ "Daisy Hildyard". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  20. ^ "Daisy Hildyard". The TLS. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  21. ^ "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  22. ^ "'Is writing about climate change a futile act?': Daisy Hildyard on The Second Body and Emergency". The London Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

Further reading

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Hildyard
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