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Alice Winn (born December 20, 1992) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2023 for her novel, In Memoriam. Personal life and education Winn was born and raised in Paris, the daughter of American parents. She has dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was nine years old. Winn was educated at Marlborough College, followed by the University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in English literature. Winn lives in Brooklyn, New York City. Her husband, Chris Turner, is a British comedian, and they have a daughter together. Career After graduating, Winn set a goal of writing "a novel a year until I wrote one that was good." Before writing In Memoriam, Winn wrote three unpublished novels, worked on screenplays, and taught homeschooled children. In 2019, Winn started writing In Memoriam after reading student newspapers published 1913–1919 from her alma mater, Marlborough College. The protagonists, Gaunt and Ellwood, were inspired by her readings of and about Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, respectively. Awards and honors In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam. The book also won the 2023 Waterstones Novel of the Year Award. In March 2024 the German translation (Durch das große Feuer) was shortlisted for the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards which will be awarded at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. Publications In Memoriam. Alfred A. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9780593534564. References. Discover the Alice Winn popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alice Winn books.
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In Memoriam
Alice WinnGMA BUZZ PICK INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I “Will live in your mind l...
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A Separate Peace
John KnowlesNominated as one of America’s bestloved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its ...
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Goodbye, Paris
Anstey HarrisInternational Bestseller A Book of the Month Club PickThe Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have ...
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Men at War
Luke TurnerAs the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand the reality behind the conflict's myths,...