![]() ![]() The other judges were author and former winner of the prize, Rachel Trezise, novelist Alan Bilton and poet Luke Kennard. This, she said, meant it was “remarkably deft at capturing the psychological impact which simultaneous alienation and ‘group think’ life online has on us as individuals”.įellow judge Irenosen Okojie called No One Is Talking About This “a timely, absurdist wonder of a book” that was “sharp, intellectually dexterous and full of wisdom”. The novel is divided into two parts, and Gokhale called the book’s flow of consciousness “almost diary-like in quality”. Gokhale, co-founder-director of Jaipur literature festival, said the book was “a searingly witty and innovative take on modern day internet culture, and the experience of family trauma in the modern world”. ![]() Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends Reading Patricia Lockwood feels like looking through a kaleidoscope built by a mischievous sorcererthe world is suddenly rearranged in fragments. ![]() She added: “A deeply timely winner, Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation of new writers who grew up under the constant pressures of real-time news and social media.” Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet. Photograph: BloomsburyĬhair of judges for the prize, writer and festival director Namita Gokhale, described Lockwood as an “astonishing and wholly original new voice”. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. ![]()
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