Diana Evans is a British-Nigerian author born and raised in London. Her bestselling debut novel, 26a, won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel Writer of the Year prize. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, the Guardian First Book, the Commonwealth Best First Book and the Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough awards, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, The Wonder, was also published to critical acclaim, described by The Times as 'the most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes'. Evans was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction for her third novel, Ordinary People, which was a New Yorker, New Statesman and Financial Times book of the year, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature. A House for Alice is the acclaimed follow-up, for which she was again shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Her essays and journalism appear in among others Time Magazine, Vogue, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Bazaar. She has been an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. www.diana-evans.com
