Kerry Hudson

2Biography Kerry Hudson (born 1980, Aberdeen) is a British writer currently living in the UK. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Awards. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger in 2015 for La Couleur de l'eau (Thirst) and was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Europa in Italy. She is currently working on a non-fiction book, Lowborn, and a series of columns for the Pool, which will take her back to the towns of her childhood as she investigates her own past and what it means to be poor in Britain today. 2Bibliography 32012 Debut novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma published by Chatto & Windus and Vintage Books (UK) 32014 Second novel, Thirst published by Chatto & Windus and Vintage Books (UK) Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma published by Viking (US) Tony Hogan m'a payé un ice-cream soda avant de me piquer maman published by Editions Philippe Rey (France) 32015 Sete (THIRST) published by Minimum Fax (Italy) La Couleur de l'eau (THIRST) published Editions Philippe Rey (France) Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing - ‘Grown on this Beach’ -Freight (UK) The Art of the Novel - ‘Details, details, details’ - SALT (UK) 32016 Tutti Gli Uomini Di Mia Madre (Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma) published by Minimum Fax (Italy) 2Prizes and Awards 3Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma Scottish First Book Award (winner) Guardian First Book Award (shortlist) Southbank Sky Arts Award (shortlist) Authors’ Club First Novel Award (shortlist) Green Carnation Prize (shortlist) Polari First Novel Prize (shortlist) 3Thirst Prix Femina Étranger (winner) European Premio Strega (shortlist) ) Green Carnation Prize (shortlist) 3Other Royal Literary Fund J B Priestley Award for Writers of Promise Arts Council England Development Grant Bookseller Rising Star (2014) WH Smith Fresh Talent Award (2016) Writers Centre Norwich International Literary Showcase (2017) 2Residencies British Council Writer in Residence Seoul & Gongju, South Korea (2013) Edinburgh International Book Festival ‘LandWords’ Writer in Residence (2016) 2Teaching and Mentoring The WoMentoring Project – a collective of 160 literary women offering free mentoring to emerging, marginalized writers – Founder and Project Manager National Academy of Writing at Cambridge University - Course Convener City Lights Workshops – Course Convener IdeasTap and Writers’ Centre Norwich – Mentor The Literary Consultancy - Mentor Arvon Foundation Residential Fiction Courses - Tutor 2Translations into French 2012: Tony Hogan bought me an ice-cream float before he stole my ma 2013: – translated into French under the title Tony Hogan m'a payé un ice-cream soda avant de me piquer maman by Florence Lévy-Paoloni, Paris, Éditions Philippe Rey, 298 p. ISBN 978-2-84876-376-7 2012: – Finalist of the Guardian First Book Award 2014: Thirst 2015 – translated into French under the title La Couleur de l'eau by Florence Lévy-Paoloni, éditions Philippe Rey, 346 p. ISBN 978-2-84876-470-2 2015: – prix Femina étrange