Laline Paull

{{Short description|British novelist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}

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| honorific_suffix = FRSL

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| birth_place= London, UK

| occupation = Novelist, writer

| alma_mater = Hertford College, Oxford

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| genre = Fantasy

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| notableworks = The Bees (2014); Pod (2022)

| website = {{URL|www.lalinepaull.com/}}

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Laline Paull FRSL is a British novelist. Her debut novel, The Bees, was nominated for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.{{cite news|first=Gwyneth |last=Jones|author-link=Gwyneth Jones (novelist) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/21/bees-laline-paull-fantasy-novel-review |title=The Bees by Laline Paull review – a fantasy with a sting in its tail | Books |newspaper=The Guardian |date=21 May 2014|access-date=2016-04-21}}{{cite news|first=Nick |last=Clark |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-2015-the-bees-by-laline-paull-creates-a-buzz-on-the-shortlist-10174216.html |title=Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015: The Bees by Laline Paull creates a buzz on the shortlist | News | Culture |newspaper=The Independent |date=2015-04-13 |access-date=2016-04-21}}{{cite web |last=Misra |first=Ria |date=September 24, 2014 |title=How Laline Paull Brought Real Science into Her Novel The Bees |url=http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-laline-paull-brought-real-science-into-her-novel-th-1638719068 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411065445/https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-laline-paull-brought-real-science-into-her-novel-th-1638719068 |archive-date=11 April 2021 |access-date=2016-04-21 |website=Io9.gizmodo.com}}{{cite news|last=Scott |first=Catherine |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10877299/The-Bees-by-Laline-Paull-review-ambitious-and-beautiful.html |title=The Bees by Laline Paull, review: 'ambitious and beautiful' |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=2014-06-11 |access-date=2016-04-21}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/books/review/the-bees-by-laline-paull.html|title=Sunday Book Review : Hive Mentality : The Bees by Laline Paull|first=Emma |last=Straub|author-link=Emma Straub|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 May 2014|access-date=2016-04-21}} Her 2017 cli-fi novel is titled The Ice.{{cite news|url=http://www.lalinepaull.com/books/ |title=Books by Laline Paull |access-date=2017-09-21}} Her 2022 novel Pod was nominated for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction{{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2023 Women's Prize longlist!|website=Women's Prize for Fiction |date=7 March 2023 |url=https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-2023-womens-prize-longlist}} and made the shortlist.{{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2023 Women's Prize shortlist |url=https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-2023-womens-prize-shortlist|website=Women's Prize for Fiction|date=26 April 2023 }}