• Source: Sophie Mackintosh
    • Sophie Mackintosh (born 1988) is a British novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, identifying the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.


      Biography


      Mackintosh was born in South Wales and grew up in Pembrokeshire, and attended Ysgol y Preseli, a Welsh language school in Crymych. When she started writing, her initial focus was on poetry. She eventually gravitated towards prose fiction, which she has combined with holding various jobs during her 20s.
      She is bilingual, and cites Welsh mythology and Angela Carter as influences. Mackintosh enjoys running and eating.


      Books


      Mackintosh's first novel The Water Cure was released in May 2018. According to The Guardian's review, the novel exposes the parts of real life that are usually not confronted in the world. British book editor Hermione Thompson who works for Penguin books and published the novel, wrote about the novel, “The Water Cure is an astonishing novel: it unfolds seductively, like a dream (or a nightmare), yet speaks urgently to the concerns of our own world. It heralds the arrival of a radical new voice in literary fiction.”
      Her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in September 2020. It is set in a future where women are only allowed to become mothers through a lottery of blue and white tickets. The Times called it "gripping, ethereal."
      Her third novel, Cursed Bread, published in March 2023, is set around the 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning. According to The Telegraph, it is "shimmering fever-dream of a novel."


      Awards and honours


      In 2023, Mackintosh's was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, identifying the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40.


      Bibliography




      = Novels

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      The Water Cure (2018), Hamish Hamilton
      Blue Ticket (2020), Hamish Hamilton
      Cursed Bread (2023), Hamish Hamilton


      = Short stories

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      The Last Rite of the Body (2019), Granta
      New Dawn Fades (2018), We Were Strangers: Short Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures (Configo Publishing)
      Revivalists (2018), The Stinging Fly
      Self Improvement (2018), The White Review
      Holiday with T (2017), Home is Elsewhere: The 2017 Berlin Writing Prize Anthology
      What I Am Afraid Of (2017), Five Dials
      Grace (2016), The White Review
      The Running Ones (2016), Stylist
      The Weak Spot (2016), Granta


      = Critical studies and reviews of Mackintosh's work

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      Miller, Laura (7 January 2019). "The purge : The Water Cure is a twisted fairy tale of toxic masculinity". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 94 (43): 68–69.


      = Interviews

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      "Creatives in profile: interview with Sophie Mackintosh”, Nothing in the Rulebook (October 2019)


      References




      External links


      Grace - short story published in The White Review
      Self Improvement - short story published in The White Review
      The Running Ones - short story published in Stylist
      The Weak Spot - short story published in Granta

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