Alice Albinia
““The voyages of Alice Albinia around our ragged fringes range through time, recovering and resurrecting the most potent myths.””
© Eva VermandelAlice is the award-winning author of twinned works of fiction and non-fiction. Her first two books explore overlapping cultural and geographical territory in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Tibet. Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, published in 2008, won six prizes in Britain, Pakistan, France and Italy. Leela's Book, published in 2011, was long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.
Her two latest books are about Britain and its islands. Her novel, Cwen, set on an archipelago off the east coast of Britain which comes under female rule, was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Britannias, a portrait of Britain which knocks the centre out, is published in 2023 by Allen Lane in the UK and in 2024 by WW Norton in the US.
Alice worked as a journalist and an editor in Delhi and London and teaches creative writing in schools and universities.
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