Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of six books, including To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Laing’s first novel, Crudo was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She writes on art and culture for the Guardian, Financial Times and frieze, among many other publications. Her collected essays on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020. Her most recent book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. Her new book, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, will be published in 2024.
