Naomi Wood
{{Short description|British writer (born 1983)}}
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| image = Naomi Wood (2022) III.jpg
| caption = Wood in 2022
| birth_date = {{bya|1983}}
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge, University of East Anglia
| nationality = British
| awards = {{plainlist|
- Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award (2012)
- Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (2014)
- BBC National Short Story Award (2023)
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Naomi Wood (born 1983) is a British novelist and short story writer, and associate professor in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
Early life and education
Wood was born in 1983 and grew up in Yorkshire and in Hong Kong. She studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and has a master's in creative writing and a PhD from the University of East Anglia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=A little about me |url=https://naomiwood.com/category/about-me/ |website=Naomi Wood |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=en |date=20 October 2013 |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205932/https://naomiwood.com/category/about-me/ |url-status=live }} Her novel Mrs Hemingway formed part of her doctoral thesis (2013), which had the title "Mrs Hemingway: A novel; What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway".{{cite thesis |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=Mrs Hemingway A novel What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway |url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48048/ |website=UEA Digital Repository |publisher=University of East Anglia. School of Literature and Creative Writing |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=en |date=October 2013 |type=doctoral |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205928/https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48048/ |url-status=live }}
Writing career
Wood's first novel was The Godless Boys (2012), a dystopian story set in an alternative future.{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=Paperback Q&A: Naomi Wood on The Godless Boys |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/08/naomi-wood-godless-boys |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=8 May 2012 |archive-date=30 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530160418/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/08/naomi-wood-godless-boys |url-status=live }}
In 2012 she was awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award (then the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award) to work on her Mrs Hemingway.{{cite web |title=Naomi Wood |url=https://www.bl.uk/case-studies/naomi-wood |website=The British Library |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=19 March 2014 |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205932/https://www.bl.uk/case-studies/naomi-wood |url-status=live }} The novel was published in 2014 and is about Ernest Hemingway and his four wives. It won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.[http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/news-archive/2014/2014shortlistannouncedforinternationaldylanthomasprize.php "2014 shortlist announced for International Dylan Thomas Prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111122804/http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/news-archive/2014/2014shortlistannouncedforinternationaldylanthomasprize.php |date=11 November 2016 }}
Her third novel The Hiding Game (2019) is set in the Bauhaus art school in the 1920s.{{cite news |last1=Edemariam |first1=Aida |title=The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood review – art and lies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/03/the-hiding-game-by-naomi-wood-review |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=3 August 2019 |archive-date=27 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127043050/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/03/the-hiding-game-by-naomi-wood-review |url-status=live }} It was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown.{{cite web |title=The winners! The HWA Crown Awards 2020 |work=Historia Magazine |url=https://www.historiamag.com/the-winners-the-hwa-crown-awards-2020/ |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219131306/https://www.historiamag.com/the-winners-the-hwa-crown-awards-2020/ |url-status=live }}
Her story "Comorbidities" won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award, and is included in her first short story collection This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, to be published in 2024 by Phoenix.{{cite news |last1=Creamer |first1=Ella |last2=Wood |first2=Naomi |title=Bestselling author Naomi Wood wins 2023 BBC national short story award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/26/bestselling-author-naomi-wood-wins-2023-bbc-national-short-story-award |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=26 September 2023 |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011225315/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/26/bestselling-author-naomi-wood-wins-2023-bbc-national-short-story-award |url-status=live }} Includes full text of story{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Lauren |title=Phoenix pre-empts Naomi Wood's first short story collection |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/phoenix-pre-empts-naomi-woods-first-short-story-collection |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Bookseller |date=21 June 2023 |language=En |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205921/https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/phoenix-pre-empts-naomi-woods-first-short-story-collection |url-status=live }}
Wood is associate professor in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.{{cite web |title=Naomi Wood |url=https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi-wood |website=University of East Anglia |access-date=11 October 2023 |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205927/https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi-wood |url-status=live }} She has also taught part-time at Goldsmiths, University of London.{{cite web |title=Dr Naomi Wood |url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/our-people/profile-hub/english-and-creative-writing/staff/naomi-wood/ |website=Goldsmiths, University of London |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=en |archive-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011205923/https://www.gold.ac.uk/our-people/profile-hub/english-and-creative-writing/staff/naomi-wood/ |url-status=live }}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=The Godless Boys |date=2011 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9781447293132}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=Mrs. Hemingway |date=2015 |publisher=Picador |location=London |isbn=9781447226888}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=The Hiding Game |date=2019 |publisher=Picador |location=London |isbn=9781509892785}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Naomi |title=This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things |date=2024 |publisher=Phoenix |isbn=978-1399615891}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://naomiwood.com/}}
- {{cite web |title=Q&A with Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway |url=https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/qa-with-naomi-wood-author-of-mrs-hemingway |website=Shiny New Books |date=24 April 2014}}
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Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:British women novelists